With an aim to strengthen the party at the village level, the Samajwadi Party called its first State executive meeting at the party office on Thursday. It would be the first meeting of the newly-constituted State executive after a gap of seven months. The meeting would be addressed by the party president Mulayam Singh Yadav, Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav and other senior leaders including Professor Ram Gopal Yadav. “The party leaders would chalk out a strategy to strengthen the party at the village level. It will come out with a plan to counter the ‘Narendra Modi factor’ and the Hindutava agenda of the BJP during the 2017 Assembly polls,” a senior leader told The Pioneer here on Wednesday.
Akhilesh Yadav, who is also the State party president is set to announce the dates of the training programme of the new members. He will also appoint leaders who will camp in the districts to propagate the Government’s programme. Party leaders here said the first meeting of the new executive would focus on holding training camps for the party cadres and to entrust the task of propagating the works and achievements of the Akhilesh Yadav Government. The meeting would be held at the party’s State headquarters in which around 70 State officials would participate.