BJP executive meeting from June 12 in Bihar

A two-day national executive meeting of Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) would take place here from June 12 to discuss strategy for the assembly election in Bihar due towards the end of this year.

Senior party leaders L K Advani, opposition leader in Lok Sabha Sushma Swaraj, her Rajya Sabha counterpart Arun Jaitley, former national president besides, party president Nitin Gadkari would attend the meet, BJP national general secretary Dharmendra Pradhan said today.

Pradhan and party national general secretary (organisation) Ram Lal reviewed the preparations for the meet which will be attended among others by state BJP president Dr C P Thakur, deputy chief minister Sushil Kumar Modi and state ministers, Nand Kishore Yadav and Ashwani Kumar Choubey.

Asked whether Gujarat chief minister Narendra Modi would also be attending the meeting, Pradhan said that all the BJP chief ministers would be attending the meeting. 

"We selected Patna for the meet as the state assembly poll will take place later this year and we have to formulate a  comprehensive plan to ensure that the NDA, led by Nitish Kumar, stages a come back," he said.
 
Other national issues which would come up for discussions were escalating prices and alleged failure of the UPA government at the Centre to check Maoist violence. 

In reply to another question, Pradhan said senior party leader and lok sabha member from Patna Saheb Shatrughan Sinha would also be participating in the meeting.

A rally would be organised at Gandhi Maidan here on June 13 which would be addressed by senior BJP leaders.