BJP national council meet underway in Delhi : 5 things to know
Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is being held at Bharat Mandapam in New Delhi on February 17-18. The meeting, expected to see 11,500 BJP delegates in attendance from across the country will be inaugurated with the address by party's national president JP Nadda in the afternoon. Prime Minister Narendra Modi is scheduled to address the valedictory session of the meeting on February 18 as the BJP is all set to outline its campaign themes ahead of Lok Sabha elections scheduled in April-May.
The meeting is attended by party's representatives from panchayats to Parliament. Chief ministers, state ministers, BJP state unit presidents and its organisational leaders from across the country are in attendance. The exercise is billed as saffron party’s biggest organisational assembly in recent past aimed at boosting the cadre in the run up to the Lok Sabha polls.
This will be last big meeting of the party before the parliamentary elections and hence sets the tone for the party’s campaign. Two such meetings of national council, the party’s highest decision-making body, were held in the national capital before the 2014 and the 2019 Lok Sabha elections. The attendance was however not more than 3000.
Senior party leader Ravi Shankar Prasad told news agency PTI that the council was likely to pass two resolutions: One that highlighting the prevailing political atmosphere and the other about the party’s position on the economy. Apart from the Ram Temple in Ayodhya, the other big talking points during the meeting are the recent white paper on the UPA government tabled in Parliament by Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman, the INDIA bloc of Opposition parties, the successful G20 summit in 2023, and the country’s global standing. Prime Minister
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