BJP ‘watch cell’ to keep an eye on friends, foes?

Bhopal: With less than a year left for assembly elections, BJP has set up a ‘political feedback and response cell’ to keep an eye on friends and foes alike.
Sources said that the feedback and response cell will collect information, assess impending political threats and monitor issues that could hurt the party’s image.
The findings will be conveyed to the party high command. “The core group of state BJP, comprising six members, will play a key role in the process,” a source said.
It is this cell that collated information on performance of MLAs.
This is crucial because the party will decide ticket distribution on the basis of feedback on individual candidates. Officially, however, BJP leaders deny any such ‘watch’ strategy on their own workers.
“The feedback and response cell has been developed to evaluate political situation and collect information and reactions on various issues that matter to the party and governance. It was felt that rival parties, irrespective of the incident, create negative waves against BJP. The feedback cell will collect details for immediate response and clarification on such incidents,” said BJP state spokesperson Deepak Vijayavargiya.
As a part of its network, the party had appointed 45 district coordinators and recently added 11 names to it completing its network in all 56 organisational districts of the state.
Sources said that BJP national president Amit Shah had taken the initiative to set up a department in New Delhi to monitor and review political activities. Later, in view of assembly elections in several states, it was decided that similar cells will be set up in each BJP-ruled state, say sources.