BJP chief opens doors to workers

Saxena, Dikshit and Ranjan were among 100-plus party workers and leaders who thronged the BJP office on Monday to meet Shah, who has launched a bi-monthly interaction with workers to get rid of the “disconnect” between them and party leadership.

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Their demands may vary, but the message is clear: the party leadership cannot take workers for granted and a communication gap between the two would reflect in the upcoming electoral tests.

It was the RSS that, sensing the growing discontent among workers over the functioning of the leadership, suggested that the party leadership initiate efforts.

“Good that the party has started this exercise,” Shubhlata Mallik, a BJP leader from Faridabad, said. She had been seeking a meeting with Shah for the past five months. Sachidananda Tripathy from Mainpuri said the organisation is getting weaker in the state.

Prabhakar Gupta, district general secretary of Etawah, and Sarswati Verma, Mahila Morcha leader from Farrukhabad, were also concerned the party’s organisation was getting weak in the state.

Many who came were not happy with the arrangements. But Shrikant Sharma, national secretary of the BJP, said things will be better next time.