By Firstdespatch Desk Dec 10, 2022
Agartala, Dec 10 (FD) With a target to finalise the strategy for the elections to the sixty-member assembly, slated for march next year, the BJP central leadership has convened a meeting of its senior leaders of Tripura in Delhi on December 11 party sources said.
Party sources said that in the crucial meeting Union Home Minister Amit Shah and BJP national president J P Nadda will discuss about the strategy and review the party's poll preparedness in Tripura.
Chief Minister Manik Saha, Deputy Chief Minister Jishnu Deb Barman and ex chief minister Biplab Kumar Deb, the president of the saffron party Rajiv Bhattacharjee would attend the meeting.
Party election in-charge of Tripua Mahendra Singh and Bhattacharjee too will participate in the meeting to be held at the BJP headquarters in Delhi, state party president, Rajib Bhattacharjee told reporters.
“The central leadership has convened an important meeting regarding the party's preparedness and strategy for the coming Assembly elections in Delhi on December 11. The top agenda will surely be the election in Tripura,” Bhattacharjee said.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi's proposed visit to the Northeastern state on December 18 would also be discussed, he added.
Assembly poll in Tripura is due by March next year.
Nadda had earlier held a meeting with Bhattacharjee and discussed the party's poll preparedness for the Assembly election besides organisational matters.
The prime minister's office is yet to clear the schedule of Modi'sTripura visit but the state administration has already geared up for it.
A senior state official said Modi is likely to lay the foundation stone for several development projects and interact with beneficiaries of Prime Minister Awas Yojana during his visit to the state on December 18. FD JK