The three-day conclave of the Bhartiya Janata Party (BJP) that began today at Nagpur with president Rajnath Singh’s clarion call to the party to get the L K Advani-led government elected in the Lok Sabha election, will fine-tune party’s strategies for realising this.
Singh, who addressed 200-member BJP National executive committee - one of the most important decision making bodies of the party - today picked holes in the United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government’s policies and vision on all fronts.
"They are confused on leadership while we have already announced L K Advani as our Prime Ministerial candidate,’ Singh said. He also patted the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) led by BJP on the back for remaining the most stable pre-poll alliance while the Congress-led UPA, he said, was continuously splitting and was a post-election alliance.
However, BJP’s main agenda - how to work on the ground level for making BJP win the election - would be discussed during next two days at the meeting of the 2,000 member BJP National Council. The council comprises key members from all the states and national body of the party.
The party’s national council is also expected to adopt several resolutions on key political and economic issues facing the country. These in turn would form basis of BJP’s election manifesto.
The BJP meet is also likely to pass a special resolution on farmers plight across the country and on the Indo-Sri Lanka relations in the light of recent war in Island’s northern areas and elimination of the the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Elam (LTTE).
Besides the marathon meeting of the National Council, BJP’s top rung leaders would also hold closed-door meetings with party leaders from various states to discuss the nomination of remaining candidates and strategies for the election.
The BJP is buoyed by its recent successes in Assembly election in Madhya Pradesh, Chattisgarh and Jammu and Kashmir. However, as Rajnath Singh himself admitted today, the party is yet to get over the shock of a humiliating defeat in Delhi and Rajasthan at the hands of Congress.
At Nagpur, party is also likely to unroll its plans to decentralize the election management system, which would enable Advani’s team comprising of second-rung party leader - Sushma Swaraj, Arun Jaitley and Venkaiah Naidu - who are considered indispensable election managers - to contest the Lok Sabha election as well.
Each of them would be given charge of the state adjoining to their constituencies. Swaraj has already declared that she would be contesting from Bhopal while Jaitley and Naidu are still undecided about the choice of their constitutencies.
