How the ‘Amit Shah’ of BJP micromanaged the Delhi poll campaign

New Delhi: From holding a rally at faraway Burari in the dust to talking suavely in affluent south Delhi, from devising the social media strategy to designating rallies for his party MPs and leaders, it is a single-handed Amit Shah show in Delhi where he had a hands-on approach in a bid to end the party’s power-famine of two decades in the national capital, countering every strategy of the Aam Aadmi Party.

Shah is always the driving force behind any BJP campaign for the last six years, so why this is different? The answer is the sheer micro-management which Shah never bothered to get into, till the Delhi election, save the Gujarat Assembly election when he went down to granular details. The Union Home Minister, who has demitted office as the BJP President, is holding rallies flocked by around 20,000 in open ground and rally attended by few hundreds in a residential area alike.

Shah is meeting not just the Delhi in-charge Prakash Javadekar, and state unit President Manoj Tiwari post 12 in the night, he has held meetings to the level of a booth in charges. There are 13,750 polling stations in Delhi and it was his idea to appoint an in-charge for each of them and make them responsible for the booth alone. He went down to the level of giving the booth prabharis a small team of party workers whose primary job would be to ensure voter turnout on the day of the election. An otherwise brazen Shah has ensured his party reached out to both the Shiromani Akali Dal, which appeared to be upset with the non-inclusion of Muslims in CAA and instrumental in ensuring Janata Dal-United chief Nitish Kumar send out a message against the naysayers like Pawan Verma and Prashant Kishor, before Delhi election. (IANS)

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