New Delhi: The BJP top brass, including Home Minister Amit Shah and party president J.P. Nadda, on Tuesday held a meeting here with party leaders from Telangana as they look to intensify their campaign for the state assembly polls expected later this year.

Sources said the party will be holding one rally each in the 119 assemblies of Telangana after completing over 10,000 street corner meetings across the state. Rallies are expected to begin by the end of March.

State leaders were also asked by the party leadership to further strengthen the organisation by inducting prominent personalities, including leaders from different parties who are favourably inclined to the BJP ideology, and boosting the number of members in booth committees from their current strength of around 10 to over 20.

BJP national general secretaries Sunil Bansal and Tarun Chugh, both of whom are coordinating the party’s work in the state, besides Telangana party chief Bandi Sanjay Kumar, Union minister G. Kishan Reddy, Lok Sabha MP Arvind Dharmapuri and MLA Etela Rajendar were among those who attended the meeting.

The meeting comes in the wake of the CBI arresting former Delhi deputy chief minister Manish Sisodia in the alleged liquor scam case in which the BJP has claimed that BRS MP K. Kavitha is also involved, a charge rejected by her.

The CBI has arrested a Hyderabad-based chartered accountant in the case, and the BJP has alleged his links with her.

BJP sources, however, asserted there was no discussion on the issue in the meeting.