New Delhi, Dec 02, 2022, By Special Correspondent
New Delhi, Dec 2: The BJP will soon shift its focus to Tripura and certain other states in the North East where Assembly elections are due early next year.
With Assembly elections in Himachal Pradesh already over and the second and last phase of polling in Gujarat to conclude on Monday, senior party leaders will deliberate on preparations for upcoming polls in certain states.
Senior organisational leaders of the BJP from across the country will hold a two-day strategy session in the national capital on Monday to review the party's preparedness for the coming electoral challenges, including the all-important Lok Sabha elections in 2024.
Party sources said the high level-meeting will be chaired by its national president JP Nadda.
The exercise is aimed to take stock of various ongoing organisational works and deliberate on the agenda to reach out to people that is likely to include India's economic growth amid global slowdown and the country taking up the G-20 presidency.
Besides organisational activities for the Lok Sabha polls, upcoming state assembly elections, including in Tripura and Karnataka besides some other northeastern states, are likely to be discussed by the party's national office bearers.
The other states in the NE region where assembly elections will be due in the next few months are Nagaland and Meghalaya.
Apart from senior leaders of the organisation at the national level, presidents and general secretary (organisation) of all states will attend the brain storming meeting.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi may also address them, sources said.
The saffron party might highlight that India under Prime Minister Modi remains the fastest growing big economy amid global slump.
And, with the Modi government planning a host of events across the country to showcase India's cultural and regional diversity to delegates of the powerful G-20 grouping, which includes major economies of the world, the BJP may plan public outreach around the exercise, which will unfold in the run-up to the Lok Sabha polls.
The BJP has already appointed former minister in Uttar Pradesh Mahendra Singh as its election in-charge for Tripura. Rajya Sabha member Samir Oraon has been made the co-incharge.
Singh, an MLC from Uttar Pradesh, is a seasoned organisational leader and was national secretary of the BJP earlier. He was also in charge of the party's affairs in Assam. Singh was a minister in the first Yogi Adityanath government in the state, though he was not retained when the BJP was re-elected to power this year.
In the 2018 assembly elections, out of the 60 assembly seats in Tripura, the BJP had won 36.
Even as the BJP went ahead with its preparations for the elections, the party's Tripura unit chief Rajib Bhattacharjee asserted "Lotus" will bloom in all the 60 seats, implying the victory of the saffron party everywhere.
"The people of the state are immensely happy with the activities, programmes, projects and schemes initiated by the BJP-led government for the last four and half years," he had told a “Karyakarta Sanmelan” in Agartala recently.