Patna, Feb. 1: The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) would showcase its strength of workers at Gandhi Maidan on February 5 to felicitate those who helped clinch a historic win in the Assembly elections.

“We are organising a mammoth karyakarta samman sammelan (felicitation of works) to honour our workers right from the panchayat to the state level who played a key role in last year’s Assembly polls. NDA’s good work brought the splendid victory in the elections but there is no denial of the fact that without the hard work of BJP workers who brought the people to the polling stations, such a grand victory could not have been achieved,” said Radha Mohan Singh, East Champaran MP and co-ordinator of the workers’ meet function.

Singh exhorted the people particularly Patnaites to participate in big numbers to hear the top BJP leaders who would speak at length on corruption and price rise. Asked about the number of workers attending the felicitation meet, the MP dodged the question saying it (the meet) would be “karyakarta mahakumbh” where workers from across the state would congregate for the felicitation programme.

Altogether, nine entry gates have been made where workers from women’s cell and yuva morcha would welcome the workers from other parts of the state by applying tilak besides offering them angvastram along with a calendar which would carry pictures of Shyama Prasad Mukherjee, Deendayal Upadhayaya, A.B. Vajpayee, L.K. Advani and all presidents of the party right from its Jan Sangh days, Singh said.

Singh, a former state president said all the expenses of the function would be borne from the funds collected from the party workers.

The workers having entry passes would be allowed at the felicitation function, he said adding that passes were being issued right from panchayat and ward level to the district level for which the worker has to deposit Rs 10.

The MP said the salient feature of the function would be that the entire programme was being organised and run by party workers.

Except for preparing the food for which 50 cooks have been hired, all the work would be done by the workers themselves. There would be three centres where food would be cooked and served in 40 counters by the workers.