With successive failures in Lok Sabha polls still posing a daunting challenge, the BJP top brass is meeting in Lucknow from June 3 to devise a strategy aimed at revival of the party in Uttar Pradesh and some other states in the Hindi heartland.
The two-day National Executive Meeting assumes importance as the party is in political wilderness in Uttar Pradesh for about a decade and now placed behind SP, BSP and Congress in the state in the Lok Sabha polls in 2009.
The main opposition party is expected to do some introspection on how to put its house in order with the recent row over senior leader Sushma Swaraj's statement hinting her colleague Arun Jaitley had promoted the controversial Bellary brothers in Karnataka exposing its soft underbelly.
Meeting in Lucknow after five years, the BJP is expected to make corruption a big issue at the national executive by bringing a resolution on it at a time when the Centre is in a fix over handling yoga guru Ramdev's planned hunger strike from June 4 over the issue of Black money.
The controversy surrounding union minister Dayanidhi Maran has come in handy for the party to target the Manmohan Singh government afresh like it did on the 2G spectrum allocation issue, dubbed by the opposition as the biggest scam in independent India.
The party may bring a resolution on price rise, increase in petrol prices, rotting food grains and related issues.
Another resolution on internal security, terrorism and relations with Pakistan in the wake of recent developments like elimination of Osama bin Laden and the revelations made by Pakistani-American David Coleman Headley is also expected.
BJP top brass is said to be working on a resolution aimed at reviving the party in Uttar Pradesh where it has fallen on bad days after the Ayodhya issue, which brought it to the centre-stage at the national level and the state, went to the back-burner.
Former UP Chief Minister Kalyan Singh, who led the Ayodhya movement in the state, is now out of the party which has not recovered since loss of power in 2002.
However, the recent law and order problems in the state under Mayawati rule - which has seen some of her MLAs going to jail - as well as the Bhatta-Parsaul farmers' agitation have given the party some issues to revive its fortunes.
After sharing power with Mayawati thrice, the lament of BJP leaders now is that joining hands with BSP was the "biggest mistake" of the party which will not be repeated again. The party has decided that it will go it alone in the UP Assembly elections next year.
This is also the first meeting of the national executive in Uttar Pradesh after Nitin Gadkari took over the reins of the party over a year and a half back with a resolve to increase the party share of votes by 10 per cent by reaching out to all sections, including minorities.
The just-concluded Assembly elections in five states have come as a wake-up call for the party as its assessment went awry in Assam, where it was hoping to come to power with AGP, as also in Kerala and Tamil Nadu where it could not win a single seat.
Karnataka has remained an Achilles' Heel for the party as its first government in a southern state has faced charges of corruption and out of turn land allotments and had to combat frequent rebellions.
The two-day National Executive Meeting assumes importance as the party is in political wilderness in Uttar Pradesh for about a decade and now placed behind SP, BSP and Congress in the state in the Lok Sabha polls in 2009.
The main opposition party is expected to do some introspection on how to put its house in order with the recent row over senior leader Sushma Swaraj's statement hinting her colleague Arun Jaitley had promoted the controversial Bellary brothers in Karnataka exposing its soft underbelly.
Meeting in Lucknow after five years, the BJP is expected to make corruption a big issue at the national executive by bringing a resolution on it at a time when the Centre is in a fix over handling yoga guru Ramdev's planned hunger strike from June 4 over the issue of Black money.
The controversy surrounding union minister Dayanidhi Maran has come in handy for the party to target the Manmohan Singh government afresh like it did on the 2G spectrum allocation issue, dubbed by the opposition as the biggest scam in independent India.
The party may bring a resolution on price rise, increase in petrol prices, rotting food grains and related issues.
Another resolution on internal security, terrorism and relations with Pakistan in the wake of recent developments like elimination of Osama bin Laden and the revelations made by Pakistani-American David Coleman Headley is also expected.
BJP top brass is said to be working on a resolution aimed at reviving the party in Uttar Pradesh where it has fallen on bad days after the Ayodhya issue, which brought it to the centre-stage at the national level and the state, went to the back-burner.
Former UP Chief Minister Kalyan Singh, who led the Ayodhya movement in the state, is now out of the party which has not recovered since loss of power in 2002.
However, the recent law and order problems in the state under Mayawati rule - which has seen some of her MLAs going to jail - as well as the Bhatta-Parsaul farmers' agitation have given the party some issues to revive its fortunes.
After sharing power with Mayawati thrice, the lament of BJP leaders now is that joining hands with BSP was the "biggest mistake" of the party which will not be repeated again. The party has decided that it will go it alone in the UP Assembly elections next year.
This is also the first meeting of the national executive in Uttar Pradesh after Nitin Gadkari took over the reins of the party over a year and a half back with a resolve to increase the party share of votes by 10 per cent by reaching out to all sections, including minorities.
The just-concluded Assembly elections in five states have come as a wake-up call for the party as its assessment went awry in Assam, where it was hoping to come to power with AGP, as also in Kerala and Tamil Nadu where it could not win a single seat.
Karnataka has remained an Achilles' Heel for the party as its first government in a southern state has faced charges of corruption and out of turn land allotments and had to combat frequent rebellions.
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