New Delhi: The BJP yesterday announced its election campaign team for the 2014 polls under Narendra Modi’s stewardship with an 11-member central election campaign committee under him.
The announcement was a clear signal of the Gujarat chief minister’s possible projection as prime ministerial candidate. The central election campaign committee is to include Sushma Swaraj, Arun Jaitley and three chief ministers.
The party also formed 20 sub-committees, under the central election campaign committee, to work on a host of tasks including reaching out to new and young voters and preparing manifesto for the next Lok Sabha polls.
The announcement of members of national campaign committee for 2014 Lok Sabha polls came over a month after Modi was appointed its chief at the party’s conclave in Goa.
The committee will work under guidance of former prime minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee, senior party leader Lal Krishna Advani and party president Rajnath Singh.
Making the announcement, Bharatiya Janata Party general secretary Ananth Kumar said that former party presidents Murli Manohar Joshi, Venkaiah Naidu and Nitin Gadkari will also be members of the national central campaign committee.
Its other members include general secretaries Ananth Kumar, Thawar Chand Gehlot and Ram Lal and three chief ministers — Shivraj Singh Chouhan, Raman Singh and Manohar Parrikar.
The manifesto committee will be headed by Murli Manohar Joshi. Gadkari will head the panel to prepare vision document.
Sushma Swaraj and Jaitley will together head the publicity committee.
IANS
