STAFF REPORTER
GUWAHATI: The BJP has decided to engage independent agencies to survey the performance, public relations, and winning prospects of the sitting MPs and other probable candidates for fielding them in the 2024 Lok Sabha election.
According to sources, the party has dropped such a hint after the shock it received in the recently held Assembly election in Karnataka. Generally, the party conducts such surveys before Lok Sabha and Assembly elections.
Assam has 14 Lok Sabha seats, and nine of them are held by the BJP. Going by the party line, independent agencies will survey the performance of these nine MPs, their public relations, and their winning prospects. And according to sources, the party is not satisfied with the performances of many of the MPs in the state. And hence, the agencies will also bring potential Lok Sabha candidates, who are not MPs, under their survey to ascertain if they have higher winning prospects than sitting MPs in their respective constituencies.
In the five Lok Sabha constituencies in the state where the BJP has no MPs, the party will conduct surveys on the winning prospects of the potential candidates for the Lok Sabha poll.
Since the BJP has the AGP and UPPL as its allies in the state, the agencies will also survey the Lok Sabha constituencies that can be given to the AGP and the UPPL. The agencies will also incorporate the demographic distribution of voters into their surveys in the Lok Sabha constituencies.
The state and the central committees of the party will examine the survey reports later.
According to sources, the BJP has no policy of giving a poll ticket to every sitting MP in the Lok Sabha poll. The party considers only criteria like performance, public relations, and winning prospects for the candidates, nothing else.
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