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The BJP has been called a political war machine for good reason and the national Capital is about to see it first-hand on September 24 and 25 when the entire juggernaut will arrive for the ‘extended’ national executive at the Talkatora stadium.
The latter date has been chosen deliberately to coincide with ideologue Deendayal Upadhyay’s birthday.
While the general elections 2019 may be close to two years away in the future, the party has made the upcoming national executive meeting a massive brainstorming session for the entire party, as unlike past executive meetings, the one on September 25 would be attended by all the Members of the Parliament of the party and from both the Houses.
BJP President Amit Shah waves at the party workers on his arrival in Dehradun
Prime Minister Narendra Modi along with others pay tribute to Pandit Deendayal Upadhayaya on his birthday
Keeping in view that many of the state assembly elections would also be held in close proximity of the general elections, and the admission that the party needs to do great and not just good in all the states to grab power in 2019, the meeting would also be attended by all the members of state legislative assemblies (MLAs) and members of legislative councils MLCs (in case of states with bicameral legislature) from across the country.
Adding to this, party functionaries said the extended or mega executive meet would be attended not just by the usual attendees—organising secretaries and state unit presidents— but also by four general secretaries from each of the state units.
On September 24, the usual meeting of party’s national functionaries would take place to finalise the modalities and the agenda of the executive meeting.
Mail Today also accessed the inside details of the expected developments that could take place at the meeting on September 25.
The Talkatora Stadium New Delhi, India, has a capacity of 3035 people
Sources said party president Amit Shah was quite buoyed by the success of the organisational initiatives carried out under the aegis of the yearlong ‘Pandit Deendayal Upadhyay Janm Shatabdi Varsh’ or ‘Pandit Deendayal Upadhyay Birth Centenary Year’, which the party has celebrated across the country.
The party could extend the celebrations, and hence, the organisational activities for another year. Some of the elements of the programme carried out under the aegis of the celebrations could even be extended till 2019, when the party goes into elections.
BJP National President Amit Shah along with Uttarakhand Chief Minister Trivendra Singh Rawat and State BJP President Ajay Bhatt having lunch at dalit’s house, in Dehradun
‘The party president himself has toured the country so much in the last one year that he has perhaps become the first chief of the BJP to have travelled and conversed with all the state units and with workers at the local booth level.
The success of such organisational measures means a lot of energy in the party and we want to keep it alive till the next polls,’ a party leader told Mail Today.
One of the elements that could be extended is the Deendayal Upadhyay Vistarak Yojana or the scheme pertaining to trained propagators across India going about professing the ideology of the party voluntarily and full-time (Purna Kalik) for one of three periods of time—15 days, six months or a year.