To erase the image of the BJP being a party with dissidence and internal bickering, two of its most senior leaders B.S. Yeddyurappa and K.S. Eshwarappa will together tour various districts, organising rallies of voters from backward classes.
The first such rally will be in Bidar on February 22.
Yadgir will witness the Other Backward Classes (OBC) rally the next day. From then, several rallies will be organised each month for the next few months, till all districts are covered, party State unit general secretary N. Ravi Kumar told presspersons in Bidar on Thursday.
He said that the rallies were aimed at consolidating the already solid voter-base among the backward classes.
Opposition parties, including the Congress and the Janata Dal(S), are spreading rumours that there is a rift among senior BJP leaders. These rallies will help us prove that these rumours are false, Mr. Ravi Kumar said.
He rubbished reports on change in the party leadership in some districts, as false and baseless.
Earlier, Mr. Ravi Kumar addressed a party workers meeting where several issues were discussed.
Some leaders in the party expressed doubts about whether the party would remain united in the rise of organisations such as the Sangolli Rayanna Brigade.
But Mr. Ravi Kumar allayed their fears and said that senior leaders in the party, in Bengaluru and New Delhi, had not seen the rise and the subsequent silencing of the brigade as counter productive to the party’s prospects.
