The BJP National Council will meet at Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium in the Capital on Saturday to ratify the appointment of party president Amit Shah. The day-long meet will be attended by over 2,000 party representatives from across the country.
The session will start with Shah’s ratification as new party chief and conclude with Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s address to the gathering.
This is the first meeting of the party’s National Council after BJP’s sweeping victory in the lok Sabha polls. Party patriarch lK Advani will also address the meet. Union Ministers Rajnath Singh, Sushma Swaraj, Arun Jaitley and other party leaders too will take part in the deliberations.
The meeting will start at 10 am and conclude by 6 pm. The National Council, the highest policy making body of the party, will adopt a political resolution detailing political and economic issues as well as the initiatives taken by the BJP-led NDA Government and its roadmap ahead. There
will not be any separate economic resolution.
“The meeting will adopt a resolution that will include political and economic issues as also achievements of the new Government and its roadmap ahead,” BJP vice-president Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi said.
He added that besides top central leaders of the party, Chief Ministers and Ministers in the BJP-ruled States and Opposition leaders or ClP leaders in States where BJP is not in power will participate in the meet.
BJP national executive members and presidents of party’s State units and BJP general secretaries and heads of various morchas and fronts in States and at the central level too will take part in the National Council session.
Senior BJP leaders led by Naqvi, along with party general secretary JP Nadda and others, reviewed the arrangements at the Nehru stadium on Friday. Shah had taken over as BJP chief on July 9 after Rajnath Singh resigned from the post soon after joining the Narendra Modi Cabinet.
Shah (50), the closest aide of Modi, was unanimously appointed to the top party post at its parliamentary board meeting on July 9.
After the ratification of his appointment, Shah will reconstitute his team that will lead the party.
The announcement of the team is expected soon after the conclusion of the ongoing Parliament session on August 14. The new team may include a number of young faces, including women leaders.