New Delhi: The meeting between Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) President JP Nadda and the party's national general secretaries with Prime Minister Narendra Modi concluded on Sunday evening.
BJP national General Secretaries BL Santhosh, Shiv Prakash, Arun Singh, CT Ravi, D Purandeshwari, Dilip Saikia, Tarun Chugh, Dushyant Gautam, Kailash Vijayvargiya and Bhupendra Yadav were present at the meeting.
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According to sources, the agenda of the meeting was to finalise programs and tasks to be undertaken by the party in the coming months with a view on the 2022 Assembly polls and ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.
On Saturday, Nadda held meetings with national general secretaries and morcha chiefs separately.
At the meeting, leaders reportedly discussed a range of issues from COVID assistance to social work, review of assembly polls held, and planning for upcoming polls and tasks to be allocated to morchas ahead of polls in 2022.
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Following this meeting, Nadda and BJP national General Secretary BL Santhosh along with morcha chiefs met Prime Minister Narendra Modi at his residence. This meeting went on for four hours.
A general message that was communicated to the BJP leaders present in the meeting was to take the Union Government's and party's schemes to the people, said sources. This meeting assumes significance in wake of the upcoming assembly elections next year.
Performance assessment
Sources in the BJP said the party has decided to conduct an internal survey to assess the work of its MLAs in Uttar Pradesh as the state will go to polls next year. Though the party conducts such an exercise every year, this year's survey will be crucial for the sitting MLAs as only those who have performed well are expected to given tickets for the next Assembly polls.
Sources said the meeting, which lasted for four hours, also saw discussions on organisational changes and a possible cabinet reshuffle.
'1 lakh volunteers to be trained'
During the meeting, it was decided that the party will train one lakh health volunteers across the country, including imparting technical knowledge, to operate ventilator and other essential medical devices, BJP general secretary Bhupender Yadav
The Scheduled Tribe (ST) wing of the party was asked to focus on promoting the Centre's Vandhan Yojana for tribals. Similarly, the kisan morcha will facilitate the training of farmers at the farmers producers organisations (FPOs) across the country and the women's wing will promote the "Poshan Abhiyan" among women, which aims to achieve a malnutrition-free India, Yadav said.
After the over four-hour-long meeting, Nadda, Santhosh and the general secretaries of the party went to meet Prime Minister Narendra Modi at his official residence
ANI