BJP National Executive meeting in Delhi
The BJP has started preparations for the assembly elections to be held in 9 states in 2023 and the Lok Sabha elections in 2024. In this sequence, the party executive meeting started on Monday at the NDMC Convention Center in Delhi. It will continue on Tuesday as well. Prior to the meeting, Prime Minister Narendra Modi did a 15-minute roadshow from Patel Chowk to NDMC Convention Center on Parliament Street.
After this, he directly reached the executive meeting and formally inaugurated the program. BJP leader Ravi Shankar Prasad briefed the media about the meeting. He told that Prime Minister Narendra Modi had identified the weak booths and asked them to work on them firmly. The party has identified 72 thousand such booths. Till now the party has reached 1 lakh 32 thousand booths.
Party president said – 9 states, Loksabha elections have to be won
Prasad further told that party president JP Nadda said in the meeting – 2023 is very important for us. We have to win the assembly elections to be held in 9 states this year and the Lok Sabha elections to be held in 2024. He also discussed the recently concluded elections and said that Gujarat’s victory was historic and unprecedented. We could not break the trend of change of government in Himachal.
The meeting was also attended by Home Minister Amit Shah, Defense Minister Rajnath Singh and party president JP Nadda, all general secretaries, chief ministers of BJP ruled states, all state presidents and office bearers. Earlier on Monday morning at the BJP headquarters, Nadda had a meeting with the party officials.
Updates from the first day’s meeting
▪️In the first day’s meeting, BJP state presidents of Karnataka, Tripura, Nagaland and Meghalaya presented their reports. According to sources, the presidents of Rajasthan, Chhattisgarh, Madhya Pradesh, Telangana and Mizoram will present their reports on Tuesday.
▪️In the meeting, Union Minister Kiren Rijiju made a political proposal. In this, the opposition was accused of using abusive language in the campaign against Prime Minister Modi.
Nadda’s extension possible till next Lok Sabha elections
After the roadshow, the executive meeting started. In this, a strategy will be prepared for the assembly elections of 9 states. This meeting is also important because just a week after this, the term of party president JP Nadda is coming to an end. However, there is only about a year left for the Lok Sabha elections, so there is a high possibility that Nadda may be given an extension till 2024.
Strategy not to tamper with the organization in view of elections
One of the important reasons for extending the term of the party president is the elections to 9 state assemblies to be held at the end of this year. At the same time, elections are expected to be held in Jammu and Kashmir between May and June. If there is no consensus on JP Nadda’s name for any reason, then Bhupendra Yadav’s name is at the forefront of the race. At the same time, there is every possibility of Gujarat BJP President CR Patil getting important responsibility at the Center.
The election of the president is not possible even according to the constitution of the BJP
Technically speaking, elections for the BJP organization could not be held in 2022, so only JP Nadda can be asked to continue in office till the Lok Sabha elections. According to the constitution of BJP, the national president can be elected only after organization elections in at least 50% i.e. half of the states. In this context, out of 29 states of the country, in 15 states, the election of the national president of BJP is held only after the election of the organization.
Nadda can be the third leader to become the president for the second time in a row
If Nadda gets the responsibility of the Speaker again, he could be the third leader after LK Advani and Amit Shah to get a second consecutive term. However, Rajnath Singh also became the party president twice, but his tenure was not continuous. In the graphic below, the details of the presidents since the formation of BJP have been given.
Changes in the organization of electoral states can be approved
Assembly elections are to be held in 9 states of the country in 2023. These include big states like Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Karnataka and Telangana. On the other hand, elections will be held in Tripura, Meghalaya, Nagaland and Mizoram in the Northeast this year. There are full chances of elections in Jammu and Kashmir this year itself. Necessary changes can be approved in the meeting for the purpose of tightening the organization of these states. Also new faces can get a chance.
