New Delhi: BJP president Amit Shah will be formally appointed as the party president in the day-long national council meeting to be held on today. Today’s meeting will be the first meeting of the party’s national council after BJP’s victory in the recent Lok Sabha polls.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi and veteran BJP leader LK Advani will also be present during the meeting and address the party workers. The meeting is scheduled to take place at Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium and around 2500 party workers are expected to attend it.
The national council meet will discuss the roadmap of the BJP-led NDA government and initiatives taken by it. Political resolutions on political and economic issues will also be adopted during the national council meet.
Party patriarch LK Advani will also address party leaders. Union Ministers Rajnath Singh, Arun Jaitley and other leaders of the party are also taking part in the deliberations. Senior BJP leaders led by Mr Naqvi along with party general secretary JP Nadda and others on Friday reviewed the arrangements at the Nehru stadium. Amit Shah had taken over as BJP chief on July 9 after Rajnath Singh resigned from the post soon after his joining the Narendra Modi cabinet.
Though BJP’s parliamentary board, the highest decision- making forum of the party, approved the appointment of Amit Shah, the move has to be ratified by the party’s national council, as per the party’s constitution.
Mr Shah is credited with scripting BJP’s stunning victory in key state of Uttar Pradesh in Lok Sabha elections that helped BJP get an absolute majority of its own and was rewarded with party chief’s post.
50-year-old Amit Shah, the closest aide of PM Modi, was unanimously appointed to the top party post in BJP at its parliamentary board meeting on July 9.
The national council meeting has been organized in Delhi in view of the ongoing parliament session that is expected to end on August 14. This is the first meeting of the party’s national council after BJP’s victory in the Lok Sabha polls.
Bureau Report
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