A two-day national executive meeting of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) minority cell would be held in Bhopal on June 24 and 25.
The minority cell State president, Hidayatullah Sheikh, while addressing media persons here on Sunday at the party headquarters at Pandit Deendayal Upadhyay campus said that the minorities played a remarkable role in the party getting a thumping majority in the parliamentary and Assembly elections.
Sheikh said, “The cell organisation of Madhya Pradesh is an ideal organisation of the country and to maintain its reputation it is continuously engaged to broaden the base of the party in the State.”
Sheikh further said that while organising the national executive of the cell in Bhopal the national leadership of the cell and the party was of the view that the other States would get energised by seeing the rapid progress of the cell in the State.
He said that the party president and Union Home Minister, Rajnath Singh has also been invited to attend the two-day national executive of the cell. BJP organizational general secretary Ramlal, vice-president Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi, State president and Union minister Narendra Singh Tomar, Union Minister Najma Heptullah, national president of the cell Abdul Rasheed Ansari, national spokesman Shahnawaz Hussain, Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan and State organizational general secretary Arvind Menon would participate in the two-day meet.
He said that the Minorities Welfare Minister of Madhya Pradesh, Antar Singh Arya would inform the meeting about the schemes and programmes run by the State in the interests of the minorities.
Replying to a query, the State president of the cell said that “we have succeeded in attracting the Muslim community towards the party by highlighting the achievements and good works done in its interests by the Shivraj Singh Chouhan-led BJP Government of the State.