Raipur, November 19, 2012
Senior
Congress legislator Ajit Jogi says that the BJP government has launched nagar
suraj abhiyan (NSA) to increase the party vote bank.
“The BJP
conceptualised NSA when it realised that the urban voters were disillusioned by
its performance,” Jogi said.
“The BJP
strategists were taken aback when they analysed results of Bastar Lok Sabha
bypolls (May 2010) in which although their party managed to win the seat, their
candidate lagged by 29000 votes against close contender from Congress in
Jagdalpur municipal area. The BJP’s shrinking mandate in urban Bastar was
certainly an alarming bell for its think-tank,” Jogi said.
“As the BJP also
lost key Raipur,
Bilaspur, Bhilai and Rajnandgaon municipal corporations to Congress, it was
compelled to resort to ideas like NSA to get back into track,” he added.
He said the ruling
party had to postpone its ambitious NSA-launching programme twice in the past
before it kick-started Monday.
“The reason for NSA
postponement was the intelligence reports that alerted the government of negative
repercussions on launch. The reports said that the people were in no mood to
welcome any campaign like NSA,” Jogi said.
“The government
brooded thoroughly before launching NSA as it was well-conversant of results of
its gram suraj abhiyan (GSA),” he added.
“Through NSA, the
government intends to reassure its workers that its mandate has not shrunk in
urban areas,” he said.
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