DOGRA HERALD BUREAU
JAMMU, Jan 9
Jammu and Kashmir Bharatiya Janata Party State President Ravinder Raina, former MP Shamsher Singh Manhas, General Secretary (organization) Ashok Kaul and State vice-president Pawan Khajuria, addressed a meeting of party’s ‘Gaon Chalo Abhiyaan’ programme at party headquarter, Trikuta Nagar, Jammu.
Ravinder Raina, while addressing the meeting, said that this is a nationwide programme of the party, wherein the BJP leaders have to spend 24 hours in a village, interact with the local people and share government schemes with them.
He said that the party as well as the union government are doing great service to the nation and its people through various programmes and policies aimed at uplifting the people, socially and economically. He said that the ‘Gaon Chalo Abhiyaan’ programme will surely bring people closer to the party and get their support during polls. Shamsher Singh Manhas said that the party cadre is well informed about the good governance of Modi government and can educate the people very effectively. He said that the exercise under ‘Gaon Chalo Abhiyaan’ will prove to be of great boon for the people as well as the party. Ashok Kaul, while addressing the meeting, said that it is a popular saying that India lives in village and hence it should be the sincere effort of the party to reach the rural population to act as a bridge on behalf of the party and educate the people about good governance, the pro-farmer, pro-development policies of the government. He said that ‘Gaon Chalo Abhiyaan’ has the potential of strengthening the trust of the people in BJP and convince them that BJP is the only political party which is genuinely concerned for a common citizen, irrespective of region, gender or class. Pawan Khajuria, also the Inchage of ‘Gaon Chalo Abhiyaan’ said that the programme will also mobilize the party activists at village level and they will get opportunity to locally have direct interaction with the people and also develop leadership at local level. He said that like many other programmes, this exercise will provide a plateform to the village people to know more about the government programmes for the welfare.