Lagatar24 Desk
New Delhi, Jan 16: BJP’s two-day national executive meeting is set to be held in Delhi on January 16 and 17. Prior to this two-day meeting, the BJP will also hold a mega roadshow of PM Modi in Delhi on Monday.
The meeting is set to be attended by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Home Minister Amit Shah, Defense Minister Rajnath Singh and party president JP Nadda, including all general secretaries, chief ministers of BJP-ruled states, all state presidents and other officials.
At the national executive, the BJP leadership may announce a year’s extension for party president JP Nadda, whose tenure ends later this month. There could be three resolutions to cover political, economic and foreign policy issues, though there’s no final word yet. The party will go all out to promote G20 events following India getting the presidency of the elite grouping of 20 leading economies of the world.
2023 is the year that will see nine states go to the polls. They are Tripura, Nagaland, Meghalaya, Karnataka, Mizoram, Chhattisgarh, Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh, and Telangana. Elections could also be held in the Union Territory of Jammu & Kashmir.
The BJP national executive meet will draw a roadmap for these crucial political battles that will set the tone for 2024 when PM Narendra Modi seeks a third straight term.
The meeting will take stock of poll preparations and assess the implementation of the work outlined at the last national executive meeting held in Hyderabad in July 2022, when the message was to reach out to communities, especially marginalised Muslims. In 2021, the meeting took place in Delhi.
The biggest highlight of the meeting will be the concluding address by PM Modi to BJP colleagues on how to take the party and the organisation forward and his mantra for electoral success.
The significance of the national executive meeting can be understood from a marathon meeting of BJP’s national general secretaries held by JP Nadda on Tuesday to discuss the agenda and mobilisation for the promotion of G20 events.
BJP vice president Baijayant Jay Panda will coordinate the organisational exercise related to G20. India has planned around 200 events across 56 cities in the run-up to the G20 summit in September.
Meanwhile, the BJP has already kicked off the campaign for 2024, when India votes to elect its new government, from Bihar and Maharashtra. The party is aware of potential challenges as its 2014 Bihar ally, the JDU, and a section of the Shiv Sena in Maharashtra are no longer part of the NDA.
