Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) state general secretary (organization), Ashok Koul Thursday said that the party was strengthening the democracy at grass roots level.
Talking to KNS on the sidelines of the Panchayat rajconvention in Srinagar, Koul said that the party had called five sarpanchs eachfrom the district for holding deliberations with them regarding certain issues.
“Recently, Union Home Minister Amit Shah also laid stress onstrengthening the democracy on grass roots level. On Shah’s directions, we havebeen organizing conventions here to get the feedback from the people on theground,” he said.
Koul added that the feedback they receive during theseconventions will be forwarded to the government accordingly.
He said the conventions will also deliberate upon therecently concluded ‘Back to village’, adding that the feedback of the programwill also be forwarded to the government.