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Mumbai: The Bhartiya Janata Party is all set to web
cast its silver jubilee gathering live, from December
28 on its website www.bjp.org.
The web cast will facilitate party workers all over
the country, to view the grand celebrations.
District party Unit Chiefs and allied frontal organization
leaders are likely to attend the session. Round about
1,000 party MLAs, some 170 MPs and also Chief Ministers
from five states and one Deputy Chief Minister are expected
to attend the caucus. For a change, the temporarily
debarred veteran leader, Madan Lal Khurana too, has
received the invitation to attend the meet. Incidentally,
the party had overlooked Khurana at its Executive meet
in Chennai in September, this year.
The party’s Media In-charge, Atul Shah, had previously
told the media that around 3,500 party activists in
Mumbai had divided themselves into roughly 40 units
for the past two months, to organize the event. The
techno-savvy National General Secretary, Pramod Mahajan,
is supervising the overall arrangements. City BJP Unit
President, Prakash Mehta, is managing the independent
units.
Shah also confirmed that several national and international
media contingents are expected to cover the conclave.
Media persons arriving for the event will be lodged
in hotels in Dadar. A media centre, with approximately
hundred personal computers, will also be made available
in the basement of the hotel.
A BJP spokesperson has revealed that filmmaker Madhur
Bhandarkar has agreed to assist party activist, Yeshwant
Ingole, in producing a short film on the party’s
silver jubilee. A 72-foot-long stage will also be set
up to hold the rally on the 29th of December at Shivaji
Park. According to sources, renowned Bollywood art director
Nitin Desai is overseeing the art and design at the
venue. The party plans to display rare photographs of
few of its founder members. These include the Vice President
of India, Bhaironsingh Shekhawat, Former Prime Minister,
Atal Bihari Vajpayee, and the present BJP President,
L K Advani, with others who instituted the party in
the 1980s.
The most important part of any gathering, they say,
happens to be the menu. Well, for a hi-tech congregation
— sources say, the invitees will be served only
“healthy and vegetarian food” at the venue.
Hopefully, nobody will catch forty winks!
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