Ahead of a series of Assembly polls, the BJP will hold its national executive meeting here for two days on January 16-17 and is expected to endorse extension to its incumbent national president JP Nadda's tenure.
The meeting will extensively discuss the strategy for Assembly elections and Lok Sabha polls, 16 months away.
Apart from the northeastern States of Nagaland, Tripura and Meghalaya, Karnataka, Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan, Chhattisgarh and Telangana are going to have Assembly elections this year. Nadda, whose three-year term as the party president ends later this month, may get extension as party chief in view of the forthcoming elections, sources said.
The deliberation on countrywide programmes planned by the Government to mark India's presidency of G-20 is also likely to be one of the highlights of the meeting, with the BJP set to praise Prime Minister Narendra Modi's efforts in this regard and prepare a road map to involve its cadres in the exercise, sources said.
Postponement of the organisational polls in view of the assembly elections and Lok Sabha polls in 2024, too may come up for discussion at the meeting. According to sources, the process of internal polls in the party may begin after the Lok Sabha polls are over in April-May 2024.
Nadda's predecessor and Home Minister Amit Shah had also got an extension to spearhead the party's preparation for the 2019 Lok Sabha polls.
It was only after the parliamentary elections that the BJP's organisational polls began and Nadda was elected unopposed with Shah joining the Union Cabinet during Narendra Modi's second stint as the prime minister.
The tenure of the three north eastern state assemblies is ending on different dates in March. While Tripura is ruled by the BJP, the Nationalist Democratic Progressive Party is in power in Nagaland. Meghalaya is governed by the National People’s Party, the only party in the northeast to have national party status.
Elections in three states will be held simultaneously and after that elections will be held in Karnataka. The term of Karnataka’s 224-member assembly ends on May 24 where elections could be held in late April or early May.
At the same time, the terms of the assemblies of Mizoram, Chhattisgarh, Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan and Telangana will end on different dates in December this year and January 2024. Elections could be held in these states before the expiry of their assembly terms.
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