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This is an archive article published on July 19, 2013

BJP brackets LK Advani with AB Vajpayee,hands power to Narendra Modi

With election season fast approaching,BJP formed 20 panels to focus on electioneering.

Narendra Modi’s stamp was clearly visible on the BJP’s election campaign committee for the 2014 Lok Sabha polls as the party Friday announced that top leaders such as Murli Manohar Joshi,Sushma Swaraj and Arun Jaitley would work under the Gujarat chief minister.

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The 12-member committee,to which Modi was appointed chairman in Goa last month,will also have other senior leaders including M Venkaiah Naidu,Nitin Gadkari,besides chief ministers Shivraj Singh Chouhan (Madhya Pradesh),Raman Singh (Chhattisgarh) and Manohar Parrikar (Goa).

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This committee will be assisted by 20 sub-committees which will concentrate on various aspects of electioneering including rallies,publicity,manifesto,reaching out to the youth through social media,courting first-time voters,“crowd sourcing”,and preparing a vision document of its programmes and a “chargesheet” against UPA rule.

“All the sub-committees will be steered under the leadership of Narendra Modi. The party has given Modi the responsibility of 2014 elections. Under his leadership,the whole campaign will move forward,” BJP general secretary Ananth Kumar said.

The election campaign committee and the sub-committees will work under the overall “guidance” of A B Vajpayee,L K Advani and party president Rajnath Singh,Kumar added.

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Gadkari has been asked to pay “special attention” to Delhi in the Assembly elections.

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