Bengaluru: Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) national president Amit Shah appears to be taking the experiment of micromanagement to a new level in Karnataka ahead of the polls by asking the party to appoint Page Pramukhs — in charge leaders for every page of the voters’ list in each polling booth.
After laying emphasis on constitution of booth-level committees during his previous visit to the State, Shah on Sunday directed the party to focus on individual sheets in voters’ list for better rapport with them.
Miffed with the state leaders busy managing only day-to-day affairs of the party, Shah warned the leaders of dire consequences if they do not show enough muscle to play big in the assembly elections.
A voters’ list in every polling booth has about 600 to 900 voters spread over nearly 20 sheets. Each sheet would have 20 to 30 voters.
This would mean that each page in charge leader will get to handle only 20 to 30 voters. It is being said that the BJP had tried such a micromanagement strategy in Gujarat too.
Shah was reportedly not satisfied with BJP legislators’ progress reports on outreach programmes in the constituencies assigned to them. Each MLA had been assigned her own constituency and one more to strengthen the party’s roots.
