Mobilising party workers two years ahead of the next assembly elections proves to be a challenge for the Bharatiya Janata Party leadership in Madhya Pradesh.

The state Bharatiya Janata Party executive meet, held in Gwalior on September 28 and 29, called upon party leaders and workers to be geared up for the assembly elections, scheduled for 2018, under the leadership of chief minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan to elect a BJP government for a fourth time.

The Bharatiya Janata Party also told workers to follow the ideals of Jan Sangh founder Pt Deendayal Upadhyay and help the party retain power at the Centre in the 2019 Lok Sabha polls under the leadership of Prime Minister Narendra Modi. ... “The leadership has made it clear that every hand will have work and every work will have a hand (Har haath ko kaam aur har kaam ko haath). That’s why the Bharatiya Janata Party is not worried about election results in 2018.”

Party leaders will tour the state extensively to galvanise workers into an election mode. “Workers at the grassroots will be convinced that the strength of the BJP, not of the government, will help the party retain power for the fourth consecutive term,” a party leader said.