LUCKNOW: In a bid to take feedback from party functionaries and also RSS brass about the ground situation prevailing in the country’s most politically crucial state Uttar Pradesh and also to chart out a strategic course for a 2014 redux in the 2019 general elections, BJP chief Amit Shah presided over a six-hour marathon coordination meeting here on Wednesday.

The meeting, held at a city resort, was attended by UP Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath, his two deputies Keshav Maurya and Dinesh Sharma, senior ministers and party functionaries, including UP BJP chief Mahendra Nath Pandey, general secretary (organisation) Sunil Bansal. Moreover, the party’s national general secretaries Ram Lal and Bhupendra Yadav had also come to attend the meeting. Even senior office bearers of RSS including its all sahsarkaryawahaks representing six regions in UP besides Dattatreya Hosabale and Dr Krishna Gopal were also present at the ‘manthan’.

Shah was apprised about some of the parliamentary constituencies where the party was seemingly weak against the prospective combined opposition comprising SP and BSP. The RSS functionaries provided Shah their feedback about prevailing impact of government schemes and welfare programmes at the grass root level.

Sources claimed that the Sangh presented a roadmap of programmes to be undertaken to face the challenges likely to be posed by a united opposition.   Senior RSS functionary Dr Krishna Gopal maintained that the meeting essentially, focused on the working of state government and the programmes Sangh was undertaking in the state like expansion of ‘Shakhas’.