Allahabad: The two-day Bharatiya Janata Party National Executive meeting begining Sunday will focus on the NDA government's achievements and strategise to expand the party base. The meeting is unlikely to discuss the chief ministerial candidate for Uttar Pradesh Assembly polls slated for early 2017.
In the meet, BJP will target the Akhilesh Yadav governnment on its track record on law and order citing recent violence in Mathura in which 29 people were killed.
According to sources, BJP Parliamentary Party will decide on the UP chief minsterial candidate and not the executive board.
The national executive board is expected to pass one political and one economic resolution.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi, party president Amit Shah, senior members of the Union Cabinet, chief ministers of BJP-ruled states and members of Parliament will take part in the meet.
"I would have called it as sounding the poll bugle for UP assembly polls but PM Modi held a rally in Saharanpur last month. Nevertheless, Allahabad has been the state's political epicentre and the place where stalwarts ranging from Jawaharlal Nehru to VP Singh have learnt their ropes. And a party meeting organised here will certainly have a catalytic effect on our efforts to bring about political change in Uttar Pradesh," said BJP national secretary Siddharth Nath Singh, who has been camping in the city since Thursday.
Enthusiasm is palpable among party foot soldiers as for the first time since its establishment three decades ago, the BJP has chosen the city for holding its national executive.
Almost all the streets and roundabouts are dotted with billboards or posters welcoming Modi and other leaders to the city and exhorting residents to turn out in huge numbers for the rally which will be held on Monday, immediately after the conclusion of the meeting.
There are also any number of posters displaying the header 'Mission 265 Plus' a term coined by Shah who has repeatedly exhorted workers to aim at achieving a thumping majority for the party in the 403-strong UP assembly.
Some of these posters stand out for making a demand that Sultanpur MP Varun Gandhi be declared as the party's chief ministerial candidate.
However, party spokesman Shrikant Sharma said "such decisions are taken at the Parliamentary Board meeting which is usually held in Delhi. National Executive is not the place for making such an announcement".
The BJP at present has less than 50 MLAs in a 403-member house, a massive decline since the 1990s when it used to be the top political group in the state.
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