BJP meet to discuss election strategy
The BJP national executive in the city on June 1 and June 2 will focus on chalking out the election strategy for the upcoming round of Assembly elections later in 2008. The BJP has to retain power in all the three BJP-ruled states — Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh — and also win Delhi from the Congress.
A series of Assembly elections before the final match — 2009 Lok Sabha polls — will be the focus of the BJP national executive committee meeting beginning here on Sunday.
Buoyed by the victory in Karnataka, the party leadership has already signalled that the BJP wants to add to its strength, before the big contest next year, by wooing more allies into the National Democratic Alliance fold.
While the two-day meeting takes place at a time the BJP feels it is well poised to take on the challenge of the Lok Sabha elections, the party is also saddled with problems in several State units.
The state BJP presidents are also expected to submit reports on the issue and the party conclave will discuss and finalise the election strategy. Three resolutions are expected to be adopted in the BJP conclave. In the political resolution, it will raise issues of price rise, the internal security situation in the backdrop of the serial blasts and growing terrorist violence and corruption.
BJP leaders are optimistic the party will retain power in Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan and Chhattisgarh where polls are due by November. They have declared that BJP will wrest Delhi, which also goes to polls within a year, from the Congress.
“The party is likely to follow the now successful plan of projecting a chief ministerial candidate during campaigning in these state elections,” a party leader said.
Naqvi said the meeting will also focus on other important issues like threats to internal security and unprecedented price rise.
The venue of the two-day BJP national executive was shifted out of Jaipur as Gujjar violence marks the state. BJP president Rajnath Singh will kickstart the conclave with his presidential address on June 1.
On June 2 the meet will conclude with the valedictory remarks of the BJP’s prime ministerial candidate L.K. Advani. All the BJP chief ministers, deputy-chief ministers and senior ministers will be among the 200 members attending the BJP conclave. According to BJP vice-president Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi, the party will raise the issue of “the step-motherly treatment” of the Congress-led UPA government towards the NDA-ruled states.
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