Raipur, January 30
Rashtriya swyamsewak Sangh (RSS) will overhaul BJP’s Chhattisgarh unit after general elections. Sangh had earlier hinted of commencing the job from January by making significant change in BJP’s State organisation, but it agreed to stall its programme after senior leaders including BJP chief Rajnath Singh and CM Raman Singh told it that such move might rattle the party cadres as they would not be able to adjust with the given situation quickly before polls.
Concerned over shrinking vote percent of BJP in Chhattisgarh and exasperated by flood of complaints against State BJP’s organisational general secretary Rampratap Singh, the RSS had recently decided to replace Singh with Vishnu Dutt Sharma, the regional organistional general secretary of Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP).
The Sangh’s sole objective of inducting new, but seasoned face in State organisation was to reconnect the saffron party with common man. Besides, the Sangh also wanted the BJP functionaries to act not on their whims, but according to saffron ideology. Indiscipline and polarisation in the party were other factors which Sangh thought to deal as quickly as possible.
However, the state unit thought it was not the right time to make any change in the organisational structure, especially in the upper slab. The party was also not ready to abruptly replace a tribal face as it feared that the move would not only hurt the sentiments of tribals but also give opportunity to dissenting ST leaders to create factionalism.
Moreover, when the RSS also rejected CM Raman Singh’s proposal to send Rampratap Singh to Rajya Sabha, the State leaders quickly came into action and talked to Sangh leaders in Nagpur by taking Rajnath Singh into confidence.
According to information, the Sangh has presently asked Vishnu Dutt Sharma to consolidate BJP in Jharkhand. Sharma will not only coordinate with the BJP as a Sangh representative, but also help the party in increasing its vote share by working at grassroot level. He will come to Chhattisgarh after LS polls.
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