Shah inaugurate executive meet to give final shape to BJP’s poll strategy

TIL Desk/National/New Delhi/ BJP president Amit Shah addressed party office-bearers here ahead of two-day National Executive meet, where its top brass is expected to give final shape to BJP’s poll strategy in assembly elections in five states. The party is seeking to make demonetisation, which it has terms as a “war against black money and corruption”, a major poll issue, besides encashing on the surgical strikes in Pakistan-occupied-Kashmir and the “pro-poor” schemes.

Shah finalised the party’s resolutions to be passed in the two-day national executive meeting that will be inaugurated with his address later in the day. The BJP chief will seek to motivate the party leaders to steer the party to victory in five states that go to polls in February-March, especially in high-stakes Uttar Pradesh.

The party leaders will discuss and review the ground situation in the poll-bound states, BJP leaders said. The party will use the occasion to burnish its pro-poor and pro-weaker sections credentials by citing several government schemes, including the recent sops announced by Prime Minister Narendra Modi.