BJP President and now Home Minister Amit Shah has called ameeting of the party’s national office-bearers at 11 am here on Thursday. AllBJP organisational heavy hitters including state presidents, organisationmantris and state in-charges have been invited for the meeting.
The objective of the meeting is believed to be the electionof new party post holders within the BJP. The meeting will be held to start theprocess of organisational elections which are due soon. The question doing therounds is whether Amit Shah will demit office and hand over charge to one oftwo hopefuls – J.P. Nadda or Bhupendra Yadav.
Sources have indicated that there is every possibility thatAmit Shah will continue as President till December this year to overseeimportant state elections in Haryana, Maharashtra and Jharkhand where BJP isthe incumbent. There is also a possibility of J&K currently underPresident’s Rule going to the polls in the interim as well.
“By October-November, the organisational polls willpossibly be over. Until then, I think Amit ji will continue (as partychief),” said an office-bearer at the party headquarters.
Amit Shah’s three-year term as BJP chief ended earlier thisyear, but he was asked to continue till the completion of the nationalhustings. BJP members will also be electing new state presidents for UttarPradesh and Bihar — two states the party did much better than expected in therecently concluded Lok Sabha elections.
Since the juggernaut doesn’t sleep, concurrently withelections to key posts, the BJP will also be kicking off its membership drivesoon. Amit Shah has called a meeting of BJP general secretaries for thispurpose on June 18. Each BJP general secretary will be given specific tasks forthe membership drive.