Rajasthan Chief Minister Bhajan Lal Sharma, both the Deputy Chief Ministers and the ruling party’s organisational leaders, including State president Madan Rathore, will be attending the closed-door sessions covering a wide range of subjects. File photo
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All the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party leaders in Rajasthan, including the Cabinet members, MPs and MLAs, have left for Kevadia in Gujarat to attend a three-day training camp on good governance. The camp will apparently highlight the “Gujarat model” for stability and administrative efficiency.

Chief Minister Bhajan Lal Sharma, both the Deputy Chief Ministers and the ruling party’s organisational leaders, including State president Madan Rathore, will be attending the closed-door sessions covering a wide range of subjects. The absence of Ministers and BJP leaders from the State till May 7 may temporarily pause routine works here.

Union Home Minister Amit Shah, BJP national president J.P. Nadda, BJP national general secretary B.L. Santhosh and Union Ministers Dharmendra Pradhan and Bhupender Yadav are likely to address the camp. Since the BJP has been in power in Gujarat continuously since 1995, the governance model’s replication will be high on the camp’s agenda.

According to the party sources, the training sessions will cover the subjects such as the fundamentals of good governance, internal discipline and communication, public engagement strategies, understanding legislative procedures and effective dissemination of the government’s schemes.

The BJP office-bearers will also be trained in the management for the upcoming panchayat and urban local body elections. Senior leaders are likely to apprise the participants of the strategies to maintain strong grassroots presence and get inputs about the performance of Ministers and the government.

CM Mr. Sharma stopped over in Vadodara on the way to Kevadia and attended a felicitation ceremony organised by the Rajasthani community in the town. The camp was inaugurated at the tent city located near the Statue of Unity in Kevadia on Monday evening.

The Opposition Congress has questioned the need for organising the training camp after the completion of one-and-a-half years of the BJP government in the State. Leader of Opposition in the Assembly Tika Ram Jully asked if an “untrained government” was running Rajasthan and it would henceforth be controlled directly from Gujarat.

Veteran Congress leader and former Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot said the BJP high command might have felt that the State government had failed and needed training. “What will be there in this training that cannot be done in Rajasthan? When the people of the State are suffering with the lack of water and power in summer, the entire BJP government is in Gujarat for fun and frolic,” Mr. Gehlot said in a post on X. (EOM)