Chennai: The BJP’s national president, Nitin Nabin, has expressed anger after learning that a training camp for party office-bearers was conducted at a five-star hotel in Guindy, Chennai.
Following Assembly elections in five states, the BJP leadership decided to hold training camps for party workers. In Tamil Nadu, zonal-level camps are scheduled from June 21 to July 21.
As a curtain-raiser, a camp for office-bearers from Tamil Nadu, Kerala and Puducherry was held on May 29 at the Guindy hotel. Former national joint general secretary and training-camp in-charge Satish, national general secretary Tarun Sukh and in-charge Aravind Menon were among those who attended and spoke.
Typically, BJP training camps are held from evening to the next evening at schools, colleges or marriage halls with open grounds, with participants staying together and beginning the day at 5 am with two hours of physical exercise. However, the Guindy event was conducted more like a seminar, and some state office-bearers reportedly mocked it as ineffective.
A party functionary said Nitin Nabin reprimanded organisers, insisting that camps must follow the established format and that holding them in star hotels serves no purpose, adding that such arrangements should not be repeated.
