BJP natl exec meet to chalk out poll strategy

New Delhi:  BJP President Amit Shah on Friday addressed party office-bearers here ahead of two-day National Executive meet, where its top brass is expected to give final shape to BJP’s poll strategy in assembly elections in five states.
The party is seeking to make demonetisation, which it has termed as a “war  against black money and corruption”, a major poll issue, besides encashing on the surgical strikes in PoK and the “pro-poor” schemes. Shah  finalised the party’s resolutions to be passed in the two-day national executive meeting that was inaugurated with his address on Friday.
Shah will seek to motivate the party leaders to steer the party to victory in five states that go to polls in February-March, especially in high-stakes Uttar Pradesh. The party leaders will discuss and review the ground situation in the poll-bound states, BJP leaders said.
The party will use the occasion to burnish its pro-poor and pro-weaker sections credentials by citing several government schemes, including the recent sops announced by Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
The top BJP brass is also expected to target the opposition over its attack on the government for advancing the Budget Session of Parliament and may project it as yet another attempt by the Congress and the other rival parties to derail Modi’s “pro-poor” agenda.
With the mood in the saffron camp optimistic following Modi’s huge rally in Lucknow recently and what it believes to be a positive public response to the currency ban, the party is expected to project the opposition’s criticism of the exercise as an attempt to protect the corrupt.  Two resolutions, one political and the other economic, are likely to be passed at the meet.
BJP’s central election committee is likely to announce the names of party candidates after the auspicious ‘Makar Sankranti’ which falls on January 14. (PTI)