Mission 2024: BJP draws up plan to win 144 Lok Sabha seats it missed by narrow margins in last polls

NEW DELHI: BJP president JP Nadda and Union home minister Amit Shah on Tuesday held a meeting to strategise for the 2024 Lok Sabha elections, with the focus on 144 seats identified in five states.
Several Union ministers and senior party attended the meeting at the party headquarters in New Delhi.

The focus was on 144 Lok Sabha seats in the states of West Bengal, Telangana, Maharashtra, Punjab and Uttar Pradesh.
The list includes constituencies where the BJP came second or third in the 2019 elections, and also some which the party has never won.
Sources said reports were presented about the work undertaken by various ministers, who were assigned three to four such Lok Sabha seats.
Sources said the ministers have visited most of these constituencies and gathered crucial details. They have done a SWOT (strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats) analysis of the party's position in these seats and identified steps to improve its electoral performance.
Data on demography and political behaviour of the electorate were also obtained.
Another set of ministers was sent to assess the political situation by visiting all assembly segments within these constituencies.
They were also tasked to identify potential candidates.