New Delhi, Aug 23
Acting on Prime Minister
Narendra Modi's directions, the BJP has finalized the union ministers to
tour parliamentary constituencies of Congress and Left MPs to highlight
their "disruptive" practice in parliament.
Human Resource
Development Minister Smriti Irani and Minister of State for Defence Rao
Inderjeet Singh have been deputed to Amethi and Rai Bareli, the bastion
of Gandhi family.
The maximum five ministers have been deputed in
West Bengal, where the assembly elections are due next year with BJP
also sending three of its ministers in Kerala to take on the Left and
Congress MPs.
On the last day of a wasted monsoon session that
began on July 21, the ruling National Democratic Alliance had decided to
hold public rallies in parliamentary constituencies of Congress and
Left MPs to highlight their "disruptive" practice.
According to
the list, a copy of which is in possession with IANS, BJP's campaign in
Amethi and Rai Bareily will be headed by Irani and Singh, and four MPs -
Nagendra Singh, Laxmi Narayan Yadav, Priti Pathak and Jyoti Dhruve -
have also been deputed for the purpose.
Around two dozen
ministers and 98 MPs have been asked to campaign agaist the Congress
and Left MPs from August 20 to August 30 and asked to tell the people of
the selected constituencies that their representatives have disrupted
the monsoon session, due to which important bills like Goods and Service
Tax (GST) Bill could not be passed.
In West Bengal, party's
campaign will be led by union ministers Dharmendra Pradhan, Rajyavardhan
Singh Rathore, Jayant Sinha, Nirmala Sitaraman and Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi
and they will be assisted by 11 MPs. They have been assigned to take on
Mausam Noor, Abhijit Mukherjee and Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury of the
Congress and Mohammad Salim and Badruddoza Khan of the Left.
In
Kerala, ruled by the Congress-led United Democratic Front, the party has
deputed P. Radhakrishnan, Bandaru Dattatreya and Gen. V.K. Singh
(retd.). They will be assisted by 27 MPs including Rajya Sabha member
Vijay Goel and Lok Sabha MPs Kirit Somaiya, Poonam Mahajan, Jagdambika
Pal and Shobha Karandlaje among others.
For Congress-ruled
Karnataka, BJP has deputed union minsters Shripad Yesso Naik, Santosh
Gangwar and Sadhvi Niranjan Jyoti and 13 MPs, who will campaign against
Congress leader in Lok Sabha Mallikarjun Kharge as well as and senior
party leaders M. Veerappa Moily and K.H. Muniyappa among others.
Union
ministers Jitendra Singh, Sarbanand Sonowal and Mahesh Sharma have been
deputed in Assam where Congress has three MPs including Chief Minister
Tarun Gogoi's son Gourav Gogoi and Sushmita Dev, daughter of veteral
Congress leader Santosh Mohan Dev.
Union minister Prakash
Javadekar will lead the party's campaign in Madhya Pradesh's Guna
constituency, represented by Congress chief whip in Lok Sabha,
Jyotiraditya Scindhia. Similarly union minister Piyush Goel has been
assigned to campaign against former union minister and senior most Lok
Sabha Congress MP Kamal Nath in Madhya Pradesh's Chhindwara.
The
Amritsar constituency, represented of Congress deputy leader in Lok
Sabha and former Punjab chief minister Capt. Amrinder Singh, has been
assigned to union minsters Vijay Sampla and Ram Shankar Katheriya.
No
significant business was conducted in the monsoon session, except
clearing the supplementary demands for grants relating to the general
budget and railways. Key legislation including the GST and land
acquisition bill could not be passed due to the disruptions led by
Congress.
(Brajendra Nath Singh can be contacted at [email protected])
