BJP training camp enters 2nd day, many leaders to attend

Puri: A training session for the Odisha BJP is currently being held in Puri in an effort to get the organisation "poll-ready" for the 2024 elections. Senior leaders have expressed optimism about the party seizing control of the state by toppling the BJD Government.

The three-day event was launched on Tuesday by BJP state unit president Samir Mohanty in the presence of senior leader D Purendeswari. Party MLAs, MPs, district presidents, and state office bearers were in attendance.

The focus is on "Mission 2024," with a target to win at least 120 of the 147 assembly seats in the next elections in Odisha, a senior leader said, adding that a number of crucial issues relating to party ideology, national security, and the accomplishments of the Narendra Modi government at the Centre are being discussed threadbare on the second day of the meeting on Wednesday.

Senior party leader and Bargarh MP Suresh Pujari declared that the state will have a BJP government in 2024 and that the party will also win at least 16 Lok Sabha seats in the state.

He said the party is planning ways to treble the number in the subsequent elections by building its organisation at the grassroots level. He noted that Odisha elected eight BJP leaders to the Lok Sabha in the 2019 general election.

Jual Oram, a party member and former Union minister, has already expressed confidence that the Naveen Patnaik administration will fall in the 2024 elections. After the next election, the flamboyant tribal leader predicted that the BJD would be "thrown to the Bay of Bengal."

"With the assistance of the BJP, the newly formed BJD took control of Odisha. It betrayed the BJP in 2009 after nine years of coexisting in power with us. The opportunity to exact revenge on the local party has arrived, according to Oram.

Pujari claimed that although the people of Odisha are aware that the BJP is capable of forming a powerful and effective administration, party workers still need to be trained. The former state BJP president stated that this is being discussed in the training camp.

According to him, the BJP would train its supporters for the 2024 elections and ask them to tell the public about the party's platform.

The party will engage the public with PM Modi's welfare schemes and development programmes from the last eight years, according to Pujari, who accused the BJD, which is now in power in Odisha, of appropriating all Central Government plans.

All of the saffron party's candidates from Odisha who ran in the 2019 assembly and Lok Sabha elections participated in the training programme.

On Wednesday, the BJP's representative for Odisha, Sunil Bansal, is slated to attend the event. On Thursday, the final day of the programme, B L Santosh, the organization's national general secretary, will teach party leaders in the state.

"We will be concentrating on the 2024 elections during the occasion. According to Golak Mohapatra, the state general secretary of the BJP, "the party cadres are instructed to highlight the accomplishment of the national administration and make people aware of the ineffectiveness of the state's BJD government, which has been ruled Odisha for 22 years.

According to Mohapatra, the party has already begun preparing for the elections since the day Union Home Minister Amit Shah recently visited Odisha.

Senior MLA Jaynarayan Mishra has just been named as the party's new leader of opposition in the legislature.

Since the BJP is a cadre-based party, all members are informed about the philosophy of the saffron camp, according to Purendeswari, who said that the training program's goal is to make the organisation more people-centric.

In three days, there will be 15 sessions at the training camp.