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After Hyderabad, Madhya Pradesh BJP workers volunteer to pay for Modi's rally

Author: Suchandana Gupta
Publication: The Times of India
Date: September 18, 2013
URL: http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/After-Hyderabad-Madhya-Pradesh-BJP-workers-volunteer-to-pay-for-Modis-rally/articleshow/22714100.cms

After the youth in Hyderabad, now BJP workers of Madhya Pradesh will pay Rs five towards registration fee to see Gujarat chief minister and prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi address the party at the 'Karikarta Mahakumbh (workers mega pilgrimage)' here on September 25. The suggestion came from party workers who volunteered to pay a fee so that the opposition cannot raise a finger and question the expenditure incurred for the rally.

 To mobilize party activists and give them the final boost before the November assembly elections, the state BJP is organizing a massive workers' gathering targeting an audience of five lakh and a collection of Rs 25 lakh with Narendra Modi on the dais. Veteran leader LK Advani has also been sent an invite along with other central BJP leaders. The party office confirmed Modi's presence in the 'mahakumbh' along with Rajnath Singh, Sushma Swaraj, Ananth Kumar and others. But the state BJP still cannot confirm LK Advani's presence.

 "He is aware there is a rally to be addressed in Bhopal next Wednesday. But it is a VVIP programme and we will get the confirmation only later this week or early next week," a party office-bearer told TOI.

 State BJP president Narendra Singh Tomar claimed that the workers' rally will be the largest ever in the history of Madhya Pradesh. "When Narendra Modi addresses the rally next Wednesday, the state will not have witnessed a bigger political rally before."

 While the cash collected in Hyderabad went to the Uttarakhand flood relief fund, the money collected from the workers' rally will go towards payment of the programme expenditure. The recommendation for collecting Rs five as registration fee from workers attending the meet came from the Ujjain district office of the party.

 Sources said that the party office in Ujjain suggested that the ruling-BJP should avoid an expenditure controversy, especially when it is to have Narendra Modi address the programme. On September 7, the Chhattisgarh BJP faced flak and criticism from the opposition and media for "wasting" Rs two crore towards organizing a public meeting in Ambikapur where Modi addressed the public from a Red Fort replica. "In Madhya Pradesh, workers are willing to pay even Rs 100 to see and hear Narendra Modi," a senior cabinet minister said.

    
State BJP spokesman Deepak Vijayavargiya explained: "It is not a charge or an entrance fee that is being levied. In the BJP, we have workers registering before a party meeting. The cash collected is taken to meet the expenditure for the purchase of files, folders and printing literature. The registration fee for the workers' 'mahakumbh' will also be utilized to meet costs towards organizing the function."
 
 
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