Dumka where started makiang and unmaking of BJP

Advani to address rally at Dumka on Sept 23

Vijay Deo Jha Ranchi Septeber 21, 2008

Bracing for a major electoral victory in Jharkhand in the Lok Sabha poll, the BJP will finally sound the poll bugle from Dumka with its new coined slogan Jeetegi Bhajapa, Jeetega Bharat. Lal Krishna Advani, the prime ministerial candidate of BJP, is scheduled to address a public rally on Tuesday here at Gandhi Maidan.

Hoping to revive its electoral ground in Santhal Pargana division, the rally would be a kind of show of strength. The senior BJP leader and coordinator of the programme, Ganesh Mishra who has been camping in Dumka, said that the party would assess its strength for the next Lok Sabha poll here.

Viranchi Narayan, spokesperson, State BJP said that the rally would send signals across the State and country that only BJP could solve the gnawing problems of the country as the UPA turned the nation a soft target of the terrorism.

The falling electoral graph of the party and the challenge posed by Shibu Soren and Babulal Marandi, who made a dent on the legislative and electoral fold of the State BJP, has caused concern among the top party leaders. The rally would pay handsome dividend during the elections, the party hopes.

Another senior leaders of the central BJP leaders including Yaswant Sinha, vice-president, national BJP and Anant Kumar, national secretary of the party would accompany Advani besides Karuna Shukla, in-charge, State BJP.

Meanwhile, the State BJP held the meetings of the office-bearers of the party at the party headquarter in the State capital. Besides Mishra, two of the top party leaders including Ranjan Patel, the organisational secretary of the State BJP are camping at Dumka and all the 12 block level units of the party has been asked to be in the alert mode to make the rally successful.

Manoj Saha, president, Dumka BJP said, "We hope to make the rally a historic one and nearly 70 thousands people would come to listen the prime ministerial candidate of the party." As only two days are left, the party workers are reported to be busy in giving the town a saffron look.

In the history of the making and unmaking of the BJP, both Dumka and Gandhi Maidan hold a special significance. Way back in 1982, Atal Bihari Bajpayee had set electoral success and acceptability of the party in motion. This time Advani, the political successor of Vajpayee, is vested with the onus to set a new benchmark.