Talking to ET, Singh said that BJP fielded several parliamentarians for the assembly polls as the party felt that their candidature may prove crucial in winning elections. BJP has fielded around one-and-a-half dozen Lok Sabha MPs, including Union ministers, in Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan, Chhattisgarh and Telangana.
In this internal churning within BJP, state general secretary (organisation) Chandrashekhar has emerged as a new power centre, who is coordinating rallies, assigning star campaigners to candidates constituencies, planning audio visual campaigns and conducting surveys to gauge numbers.
Constantly touring the state, meeting grass-root workers, ironing out differences, the Congress leader rallied party ahead of polls even as BJP stepped up attacks on him