Prime Minister Narendra Modi will address national executives of all seven wings of the BJP on 17 May, in what would be the first such meeting and is seen as aimed at toning up the party's organisational machinery in the run up to the next Lok Sabha polls.
The meeting of the national executive members of all seven morchas (cells) will be held at Kedar Nath Sahani auditorium of the Shyama Prasad Mukerjee Civic Centre in Central Delhi.
A party leader said 700-800 office bearers of these party’ wings -- focused on scheduled castes, scheduled tribes, women, youth, farmers, minorities, and other backward classes -- will attend the meeting which BJP president Amit Shah will also address.
The day-long exercise is scheduled to be held two days after the announcement of results of Karnataka assembly polls on 15 May.
The meeting will be attended by national executive members of the party's Mahila Morcha, Minority Morcha, S.C Morcha, S.T. Morcha, Yuva Morcha, Kisan Morcha, and OBC Morcha.
“Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Amit Shah will address the meeting,” an invitation sent to the heads of all the seven cells by party General Secretary Arun Singh read.
‘Each Wing Will Be Responsible to Popularise Govt Schemes in Their Section of Voters’
Party sources said to PTI that this would be for the first time that all wings of the party will sit under one roof and will be addressed by Modi and Shah.
A BJP leader, on the condition of anonymity, told IANS that each wing of the party organisation would be given responsibility of their concerned sections so that the government schemes could be popularised among that section of the voters before the 2019 Lok Sabha polls.
The party leadership is likely to use the opportunity to set the agenda in the run up to the next Lok Sabha poll, which is about a year away, and exhort them to use their organisational machinery to share the central government's successes with the masses.
“The women wing will be asked to counter the opposition’s onslaught over women’s issues with full facts and figures and make them aware about the programmes being run by the central government for their welfare,” he said.
The meeting comes at a time when the government is facing charges of being anti-Dalit, anti-Tribes, anti-women, anti-minority, anti-farmer and anti-youth in the wake of recent incidents related to different sections of the society.
(With inputs from PTI and IANS)
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