New Delhi: Gujarat Chief Minister and BJP campaign committee chief Narendra Modi has reached the party office in the national capital to attend the party's Parliamentary board meet. This is the first meeting of the BJP Parliamentary Board after Modi was made the party's campaign panel chief for the 2014 Lok Sabha elections. The strategy for the 2014 Lok Sabha elections is likely to be discussed at the meet.
Modi's campaign committee for the 2014 Lok Sabha elections is likely to be unveiled after the BJP Parliamentary Board meet on Thursday. Ahead of the meeting, Modi met several leaders from the BJP and its allies. Janata Party President Subramanian Swamy and BJP General secretary Varun Gandhi met Modi after he arrived in Delhi.
By forming a team with all general secretaries and members of the implementation team, Modi may signal that he wants to take everyone along as the BJP heads for the general elections. The move will also give him more power in the party, almost parallel to BJP President Rajnath Singh, as all the general secretaries will directly report to him.
Modi, who was chosen to head the Bharatiya Janata Party's poll committee earlier in June, is likely to include Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi and Sudhanshu Trivedi in his team, apart from all the general secretaries of the party.
All the general secretaries and members of the programme implementation committee are part of the poll committee team. Therefore, Naqvi and Trivedi, who are part of the implementation committee, will also be included in the election campaign team.
Narendra Modi was in April reinducted into the BJP Parliamentary panel after a gap of six years. Varun Gandhi and Modi's close aide and former Gujarat home minister Amit Shah were also among the new faces in the Board.
Modi's visit to Delhi comes a day after the CBI filed its first chargesheet in the Ishrat Jahan case. The chargesheet came as a relief for Modi and Amit Shah, who have not been named by the CBI.
Modi took the centrestage in the BJP soon after Rajnath Singh took over as the party's president. While there have been reservations from some party members on Modi's elevation, Rajnath has been defending the Gujarat Chief Minister and backing him at every step.
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