BHOPAL: The Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) has started an intensive constituency-wise survey ahead of BJP president Amit Shah's Madhya Pradesh visit to help him finalise the party’s campaign strategy for not only the Assembly elections but also the 2019 Lok Sabha polls.

The survey report will be submitted after three weeks and Shah is likely to begin his MP tour from August-end or early September.

Sources in the Sangh Parivar and the BJP told TOI, that dedicated workers had already been sent to even remote rural areas to take feedback from villagers on execution of plans envisaged during a key meeting in April this year. The VHP has roped in volunteers to collect feedback on ‘gau raksha’ (cow protection), conversions and the Rohingya issue. Survey reports of all the 230 Assembly constituencies will be tabled in New Delhi to finalise Shah's campaign plan.

“The RSS and Sangh frontal organisations had been collecting data for the last six months to ensure a change in voters’ feedback on BJP’s policies, implementation of programmes and the recent shift in the party’s stand on poll-sensitive issues.

The main agenda is related to alienation of grassroots workers and how to take on the challenges the BJP faces in view of the Congress’s proposed alliance with the BSP in the state,” said a BJP source, adding that issues like unrest among farmers, crimes against women and job worries among youth were key concerns for the party.

Shah’s ‘strategy team’ is likely to arrive in Bhopal in the first week of August to lay the groundwork for the BJP president. From Bhopal, Shah will monitor poll activities in MP, Rajasthan and Chhattisgarh .

“This is a regular monitoring process. Workers collect feedback in their respective areas. But we also exchange ideas on different subjects related to the party... I feel that the ground-level work done by workers in each division, district and block will pay rich dividends to the party in every booth,” BJP state organising general secretary Suhas Bhagat told TOI.

