11-20-2007, 04:17 AM
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Pioneer.com
Kumar Uttam | New DelhiÂ
... for first phase of Gujarat poll on Dec 11
Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi plans to kick off the campaign in all 87 Assembly segments that are going to the polls in the first phase on December 11 simultaneously.
To take his opponents by surprise, <b>Modi is learnt to have suggested to the party's "election managers" to create a pool of around 30 campaigners who could be engaged in a "rapid fire" campaign on a single day. On Sunday, Modi had surprised his rivals by dropping more than 50 per cent of the candidates the BJP had filed in Gujarat in the 2002 Assembly elections.</b>
A senior BJP leader told The Pioneer, "Modi wants central leadership of the party to identify the leaders who would campaign for the candidates during elections. If 30 of them are picked up, each of them would separately address three rallies each to cover the entire 87 Assembly segments on a single given day.
The leader contended it would not be much problem for the BJP to find out such a large number of campaigners available on a single day. The party believes in case there was any shortage of campaigners at the national level, it would be fulfilled bringing in Chief Ministers and leaders from the States.
"Modi wants the campaign to be kicked off either on November 27 or 29. That means all BJP's campaigner must be available on that date," the party leader added.
However, that the Parliament Session is going on and most of BJP's star campaigners are member of either the Lok Sabha or the Rajya Sabha, party's campaign managers are trying to find out a suitable date to kick off the campaign so that all its MPs were available.
<b>Leader of the Opposition LK Advani, BJP president Rajnath Singh and senior leaders like Murli Manohar Joshi, Jaswant Singh, Venkaiah Naidu, Arun Jaitley, Sushma Swaraj, Ananth Kumar, Yashwant Sinha, Shatrughan Sinha, Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi and others are expected to campaign for the party in the polls. Party MPs like Hema Malini, Dharmendra, Vinod Khanna and others might also be roped in</b>.
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Pioneer.com
Kumar Uttam | New DelhiÂ
... for first phase of Gujarat poll on Dec 11
Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi plans to kick off the campaign in all 87 Assembly segments that are going to the polls in the first phase on December 11 simultaneously.
To take his opponents by surprise, <b>Modi is learnt to have suggested to the party's "election managers" to create a pool of around 30 campaigners who could be engaged in a "rapid fire" campaign on a single day. On Sunday, Modi had surprised his rivals by dropping more than 50 per cent of the candidates the BJP had filed in Gujarat in the 2002 Assembly elections.</b>
A senior BJP leader told The Pioneer, "Modi wants central leadership of the party to identify the leaders who would campaign for the candidates during elections. If 30 of them are picked up, each of them would separately address three rallies each to cover the entire 87 Assembly segments on a single given day.
The leader contended it would not be much problem for the BJP to find out such a large number of campaigners available on a single day. The party believes in case there was any shortage of campaigners at the national level, it would be fulfilled bringing in Chief Ministers and leaders from the States.
"Modi wants the campaign to be kicked off either on November 27 or 29. That means all BJP's campaigner must be available on that date," the party leader added.
However, that the Parliament Session is going on and most of BJP's star campaigners are member of either the Lok Sabha or the Rajya Sabha, party's campaign managers are trying to find out a suitable date to kick off the campaign so that all its MPs were available.
<b>Leader of the Opposition LK Advani, BJP president Rajnath Singh and senior leaders like Murli Manohar Joshi, Jaswant Singh, Venkaiah Naidu, Arun Jaitley, Sushma Swaraj, Ananth Kumar, Yashwant Sinha, Shatrughan Sinha, Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi and others are expected to campaign for the party in the polls. Party MPs like Hema Malini, Dharmendra, Vinod Khanna and others might also be roped in</b>.
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