BENGALURU: Union home minister Amit Shah will launch preparations for next year’s assembly elections in Karnataka by chairing a meeting of the state BJP core committee on Friday evening.
The meeting, at the state BJP office, will deliberate on ways to strengthen party organisation and chalk out a roadmap for the elections scheduled for May 2023.
All 16 members of the core committee, including Arun Singh, BJP national general secretary and Karnataka incharge, CM Basavaraj Bommai, and his predecessor BS Yediyurappa will attend. Shah arrived in Bengaluru on Thursday night and was received by Bommai at the airport. He will take part in the 115th birth anniversary celebrations of late Shivakumar Swami, pontiff of Siddaganag Mutt in Tumakuru on Friday morning. Over one lakh people are expected to attend.
Since the mutt has a huge following among Lingayats, the core vote bank of BJP, the party is hoping to encash it by ensuring the celebrations are a grand success. From there, Shah will fly to Muddenahalli, the birthplace of Sir M Visvesvaraya in Chikkaballapur district, where he will lay the foundation for a new government medical college building.
