tnnLucknow: BJP ally and Union minister Jayant Chaudhary has effected another organisational restructuring of his party by revamping Team RLD, comprising a group of independent party functionaries tasked to coordinate between the booth and the national body.In the run up to UP Assembly elections, the party has decided to appoint coordinators from gram panchayats, booths, assembly seats and districts. It has been decided to make the new set-up more “accountable” and “disciplined” in wheeling the organisational decisions from the national team to the state and further down to the district, assembly seat and the booth levels. This team will gather ground-level feedback and inform the state body as well as the national body.The development comes 10 days after the party dissolved its state unit to pave the way for restructuring of its organisational units across the state.“The new team would work like the eyes and ears of the national leadership,” said RLD national secretary Anupam Mishra, who headed the team as its national convener in the run-up to the 2022 Assembly elections when RLD was an ally of the Samajwadi Party. RLD had then contested 33 seats but won only eight, losing deposits on three seats. RLD is yet to decide as to who would lead the team in the upcoming state polls.The new team will have a 35-member committee at the district level which will focus on laying the groundwork for the elections and implementing strategies on the ground.Focus will be on RLD’s attempt to evolve beyond being an organisational experiment and emerge as an effective election-management apparatus. Sources said its success will largely depend on who is chosen to lead the structure, how clearly roles and responsibilities are defined, and whether the coordinators can function with autonomy while remaining aligned with the party leadership.A senior RLD member said the restructuring represents more than a routine organisational exercise. It is a strategic attempt to tighten party discipline, improve communication channels and prepare early for the Assembly elections in which the party hopes to enhance its bargaining power within the NDA and expand its electoral footprints in Uttar Pradesh.
