With an eye on the next assembly election, Union Home Minister Amit Shah, who is also the Lok Sabha (LS) Member of Parliament (MP) from Gujarat’s Gandhinagar, has been appointed as the ‘panna pramukh (page in-charge)’ in the state’s Naranpura assembly constituency.
Gujarat BJP president CR Paatil said, that Shah has inspired party workers by taking up the responsibility. ‘Union home minister Amit Shahji has provided another great inspirational example by constituting page committee as a Page Pramukh’, he added. Under this model of booth management, the party appoints a ‘pramukh (in-charge)’ for a ‘panna (page)’ in the electoral rolls. The panna pramukh is given the responsibility of focusing on 8-12 families comprising about 60 voters to create a larger voter base. As many as 15 lakh panna pramukhs have been appointed by the party across 52,000 polling booths of Gujarat so far.
Gujarat will head for assembly polls in 2022. However, elections for municipal corporations, municipalities, district panchayats and taluka panchayats are expected to be held in February 2021.
