The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) will conduct a conference in Guwahati on thursday to discuss the 2018 Lok Sabha elections with representatives from 12 eastern states, including Bihar, Jharkhand, Odisha, and West Bengal.
According to Bhabesh Kalita, head of the Assam BJP, “a meeting of 12 eastern states including Bihar, Jharkhand, Odisha, and West Bengal will be held in Guwahati on July 6.” “BJP presidents, general secretaries, and other leaders from 12 eastern states will meet in Guwahati today,” Kalita added. “The meeting is scheduled to begin at 9 am. Preparation and strategy for the 2024 Lok Sabha polls will be discussed during the meeting,” he added.
According to party leaders, this meeting is a part of the BJP’s region-wise meetings of the three zones – the eastern, northern, and southern, of all the general secretaries and presidents of the Morcha scheduled to be held from July 6 to 8.
The eastern region includes the states of West Bengal, Arunachal Pradesh, Sikkim, Nagaland, Manipur, Mizoram, Meghalaya, Tripura, and Assam, apart from Bihar, Jharkhand and Odisha. “The Eastern Zone meeting will be held in Guwahati on Thursday morning,” they said.
The northern regions include states like Himachal Pradesh, Punjab, Chandigarh, Rajasthan, Jammu and Kashmir, Ladakh, Gujarat, Daman Diu-Dadar Nagar Haveli, Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Uttarakhand, Delhi, Haryana, and Uttar Pradesh. This is scheduled on July 7 in Delhi. Finally, on July 8, a meeting with the leaders of the southern area is arranged in Hyderabad. Kerala, Tamil Nadu, Karnataka, Telangana, Andhra Pradesh, Maharashtra, Mumbai, Goa, Andaman and Nicobar, Puducherry, and Lakshadweep are all part of the region.
The BJP is preparing for the next state assembly elections in Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan, Chhattisgarh, Telangana, and Mizoram, as well as the Lok Sabha elections in 2024.