BJP to hold national executive meet in Odhisa as part of its East India strategy, says top party leader

BJP has formulated a strategy to expand its foot print in states like Andhra Pradesh, Tamil Nadu, West Bengal and Odisha.

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BJP to hold national executive meet in Odhisa as part of its East India strategy, says top party leader
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In Short

  • As part of its East India strategy, BJP to hold national executive meeting in Odhisa.
  • BJP is now concentrating on states where the position of the party is not good.
  • BJP has formulated a strategy to expand its foot print in states like Andhra Pradesh, Tamil Nadu, West Bengal and Odisha.

It's mission East India as far as the BJP is concerned and to cement its position in one of the eastern state, party is holding its two-day National Executive meet in Odisha.

A senior BJP leader today said that it is big part of the future strategy of the BJP to hold its national executive in Odisha. He said that the BJP is now concentrating on states where the position of the party is not good and Odisha is part of that East India strategy.

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BJP has formulated a strategy to expand its foot print in states like Andhra Pradesh, Tamil Nadu, West Bengal and Odisha. What has really lifted the spirit of the party was the result of the local body election in Odisha couple of months back.

According to this senior leader, eastern states will have a major role to play in 2019 Lok Sabha election and party is working with a focused outlook and the vision of party president is very clear.

He added, "PM Modi has said that without the development of eastern India, development of India is not possible. Where ever we have to strengthen ourselves, we are working at the booth-level and Amit Shah has said that he will go to those parts of Odisha where the party is weak."

When asked about the internal bickering and allegation that the BJP is trying to engineer a split within BJD, he said, "Our mandate is to strengthen the party."

He also said that whenever next party president will visit the state, he will make booth-level visit so that the party can be strengthened.

He also said that the national executive of the BJP will be held in Janta Maidan and Prime Minister Narendra Modi will stay in the Rajbhavan from where he is expected to go to Surat for a road show on 16th of April.

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