Leaders of the Bharatiya Janta Party have started reaching Allahabad to participate in party national executive meeting from Sunday at KP college ground.<br/><br/>Over three hundred senior party leaders, Chief Ministers of BJP ruled states and several Union Ministers are likely to participate in the two day meet.<br/><br/>Prime Minister Narendra Modi and BJP president Amit Shah will also be reaching the venue.<br/><br/>The BJP national secretary Srikant Sharma said, the party will highlight two years achievements of NDA government and also review its policies.<br/><br/>It is expected that forthcoming state assembly elections, especially UP, will be a major issue in meeting.<br/><br/>Party national general secretary Bhupendra Yadav and state president Keshav Prasad Maurya addressed a press conference on Saturday. Mr Yadav said party will adopt three resolutions during the two day meet.<br/><br/>Meanwhile, Himanta Biswa Sarma and Vijay Bahuguna were inducted into BJP's National Executive on Saturday.<br/><br/>Mr Sarma had played a key role in BJP's win in Assam's Assembly polls and Mr Bahuguna, the former Uttarakhand Chief Minister had recently joined the BJP.<br/><br/>The development came a day before the BJP National Executive meets for a two-day session in Allahabad.<br/><br/>BJP brought several new faces to its key body including former Odisha Chief Minister and tribal leader Giridhar Gamang and former union minister K P Singh Deo.<br/><br/>The party also inducted into the National Executive several of its former state Unit Chiefs, including Laxmikant Bajpai of Uttar Pradesh, Prahlad Joshi of Karnataka, V Muraleedharan of Kerala, Kamal Sharma of Punjab and Chaoba Singh of Manipur.<br/><br/>Party sources said these leaders were inducted to the strengthen party to make the body more representative.<br/><br/>All former party chief ministers are permanent invitees to the National Executive but Mr Bahuguna, a former Congressman, and Mr Gamang were inducted to give them an equal status.
News On AIR | June 11, 2016 8:43 PM
BJP leaders reaching Allahabad to participate in party's national executive meet