Vibha Sharma
Tribune News Service
New Delhi, November 7

Ahead of elections to five key states, including Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand, and Punjab,  early next year, the BJP is holding a meeting of its newly overhauled national executive today under the leadership party president JP Nadda.

The national executive meeting comes ahead of upcoming assembly polls in five states and discussions are expected to revolve around states going into Assembly elections and upcoming party activities

However, the also meeting follows the party's rather dismal performance in Himachal Pradesh and Rajasthan by-polls amid the ongoing farmers' agitation and price rise.

Top BJP leaders, including senior union ministers, are attending the hybrid meeting. 

Prime Minister Narendra Modi, when he arrived at the venue, was accorded a resounding welcome by the BJP led by party president JP Nadda While the meeting commenced with the speech of party president Nadda Prime Minister Narendra Modi will address the concluding session.

According to party general secretary Arun Singh, the meeting will end with a speech by PM Modi. Every member will get guidelines by the PM on how to make the party better he added.

This is also the first meeting of the key organisational body following the COVID-19 outbreak.

Arun Singh said 124 national executive members and many Union ministers will attend the meeting physically while the members based in various states, including chief ministers, will join it virtually in line with the Covid protocol.

Nadda announced the new national executive committee last month, leaving out UP MPs Varun Gandhi and his mother Maneka Gandhi.