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<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin--><b>Focused BJP to expose UPA misrule</b>
Pioneer News Service | New Delhi
The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) would go for a “focused and aggressive” campaign against the failures of the UPA Government as it prepares for the forthcoming Lok Sabha election. The party feels that its campaign should focus on the youth, women and farmers.

The Chief Ministers of all the BJP-ruled States and senior Ministers in the NDA Government, who gathered here at the residence of the alliance’s prime ministerial candidate LK Advani on Thursday, were asked not only to highlight how the UPA Government had bungled in various fields, but also to compare the performance of the Congress-ruled States vis-à-vis those governed by the BJP.

<b>“We have to convince the electorate that the UPA has undone the achievements of the previous NDA Government even as we will have to inform them of the steps we plan to take after coming to power,”</b> M Venkaiah Naidu, the chairman of the BJP’s election management committee, told reporters here on Thursday.

Besides going in for a focused and aggressive campaign and comparing the performances of the NDA and UPA Governments, the BJP leadership has decided that the party’s campaign should “expose” the UPA’s divisive agenda and discrimination against the BJP-ruled States.

Advani and other party leaders also received feedback from the Chief Ministers about a number of election issues and it was decided that terrorism, agricultural crisis, inflation, unemployment and loss of livelihood opportunities should be high on the party’s poll campaign agenda. The uncompleted agenda of the inter-linking
of rivers would also find a mention in the election campaign.
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“There is a sense of insecurity among youth, who are losing jobs, because of the wrong policies of the UPA Government that ruined a resilient economy which had been handed over to it by the previous BJP Government,”</b> Naidu said.

It was decided at the meeting that the BJP should complete its candidate selection as soon as possible, conduct workers’ conferences in areas where these have not been held so far, complete the first-time voters’ felicitation programme and the process of inducting part-time campaigners who would work for the party during elections.

Advani told the Chief Ministers that people should be informed of the party’s assurance of delivering good governance and security. “You should take out time from your schedule to take part in campaigns in other States too,” Advani told the BJP Chief Ministers.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->