BJP to review MPs’ performance

New Delhi: Gearing up for the 2019 parliamentary polls, the Bharatiya Janata Party will review the performance of each of its sitting Lok Sabha members.

On the party’s directions, an independent agency will conduct a performance audit of all its LS members on 16 parametres.

Top party sources told this newspaper that the process of performance audit of the seven BJP LS members who won from the capital in 2014 has already begun and will be completed soon.

“Prime Minister Narendra Modi and party president Amit Shah will personally review the report of each BJP LS member and only those who pass with flying colours will get the party ticket to contest 2019 polls. The agency has been engaged three months ago in this connection,” said a BJP leader.

Being a sitting LS member alone will not be enough to ensure a party ticket for the 2019 parliamentary elections, a BJP leader said.  

The agency to conduct the performance audit will prepare a report on 16 parametres, including implementation of central schemes, implementation of Prime Minister’s flagship programmes, utilisation of Local Area Development funds, presence of party LS members in his or her constituency, presence on social media, making people on demonetisations and Goods and Services Tax (GST) among others,” he added.

A party insider claimed that the agency is already preparing a performance audit report of the LS members who won from Delhi in the last polls. “A preliminary report has been already prepared,” he informed.

Among those who won from the capital include city BJP chief Manoj Tiwari who won from Northeast constituency, national secretary Maheish Girri from East Delhi, Union minister Dr Harsh Vardhan from Chandni Chowk, bureaucrat turned politician Dr Udit Raj from Northwest Delhi, partry spokesperson Meenakshi Lekhi from and Ramesh Bidhuri and Parvesh Verma who won from South and West Delhi, respectively.