BJP meet to plan big for Kerala

Thiruvananthapuram: The three-day BJP national council meet to be held in Kozhikode from September 23 will come out with a draft plan to broadbase the party’s influence in the State and discuss the ways to rope in the Kerala Congress (M) and its chairman K. M. Mani to the NDA fold. The state leadership is expecting about 3,000 delegates, including Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the party top brass, to attend the meet.

Party state chiefs will present reports on the advances the party has made post-Assembly and Lok Sabha elections at the meet which the state hosts for the first time. Kerala BJP leaders feel that both Kerala and Tamil Nadu party would be restructured right from the booth level.

“The meet would discuss the strides the BJP has to make in the coming years, especially for the 2019 Lok Sabha elections,” a senior BJP leader. “It would also kick-start the year-long centenary celebrations of Jan Sangh founder Deendayal Upadhyaya.”

The BJP national leadership is commemorating the 50th anniversary of the election of Deendayal Upadhyaya as president of the Jan Sangh, the earlier avatar of BJP, at a meet held in Kozhikode. The national executive will meet at Kadavu resort on September 23 while the national council meet will be held at Swapnanagari on September 24 and 25.