BHOPAL: The BJP leadership met here on Friday to discuss ensuing by elections. Party leaders talked about the BJP ongoing programmes and discussed the feedback party got on the seats where by-elections are scheduled.
By-elections would take place on four seats of MP including three assembly seats- Jobat, Prithvipur, Raigaon and one Lok Sabha seat- Khandwa. Party sources said the internal party survey did not give a clean sweep to party, at least on the three assembly seats.
National joint general secretary organization, Shivprakash, BJP national general secretary, Kailash Vijayvargiya, state in charge Muralidhar Rao, chief minister, Shivraj Singh Chouhan, BJP MP state president, VD Sharma, Union minister Narendra Singh Tomar and MP Home Minister, Narottam Mishra were present in the meet held in the CM house in Bhopal on Thursday.
Chief minister Chouhan is scheduled to meet Union Home Minister, Amit Shah in New Delhi on September 26. Party leaders also discussed about appointments in boards and corporations, which may be deferred for a few more days. The issue may be taken up during CM and Shah meet.
The party leaders also discussed to reconstitute the party’s core group. Former BJP state president and Khandwa MP Nandkumar Singh Chouhan, who was a member of core group, is no more. BJP’s core group may be reconstituted soon.
Union minister, Jyotiraditya Scindia may be inducted in the core group due to his influence in the Gwalior and Chambal region. Events ongoing in the Seva and Samarpan Abhiyan that began on Prime Minister Narendra Modi's 71st birthday to mark his 20 years in public service was also discussed in the meet.