BJP tasks state units to set up Covid-19 help desks

The BJP has tasked its national general secretaries with monitoring the Sewa Hi Sangathan-2 mission started by the party on the instructions of national president JP Nadda to help combat the Covid-19 pandemic. Part one of this mission was undertaken by the party during the first Covid-19 wave.Nadda has given the general secretaries charges of different states in order to keep a regular check on the work being done on the ground. The general secretaries who are in charge of states will look after those states and, in addition, some of them have also been given other states.Under the mission, the party has decided to set up help desks starting from state to mandal level across the country. State units will release helpline numbers to extend help to Covid-19 patients and other people amid the pandemic. Party workers will try to extend maximum help in coordination with the government. “The Yuva Morcha will organise blood donation camps and prepare a list of plasma therapy. It will be provided to hospitals in need of plasma,” Arun Singh, BJP general secretary, told ET.

“Party workers will once again start making face covers at home, as it was done during the first wave of Covid.” Through the helpline, party workers have been asked to extend help to Covid-19 patients, migrants and families who need help. All this would be coordinated by the central party office, with Nadda taking a meeting every second day.However, the party has issued special instructions that no photo ops should be organised of any of the services being offered by the workers. “We don’t want publicity from this. There should be no photo op. Let people get to know through our work,” Singh told ET. “On social media, the worker should put out numbers for blood donation and vaccination awareness but not their pictures.”