With the upcoming Assembly polls in five States at centre stage, the two-day BJP national executive meet will begin here from Friday. The Government’s demonetisation move is expected to get a big thumbs up and hailed as “an important step” in its “war against black money and corruption” even as the Opposition is likely to be targeted over its attack against the BJP-led dispensation at the Centre for advancing the Budget Session of the Parliament.
Two resolutions, one political and the other economic, are likely to be passed at the meet. BJP chief Amit Shah will deliver the inaugural address while Modi is set to give the valedictory speech the day after.
With the mood in the saffron camp optimistic following the prime minister’s huge rally in lucknow recently and what it believes to be a positive public response to the currency ban, the party is expected to project the opposition’s criticism of the exercise as an attempt to protect the corrupt.
The army’s surgical strikes last year to target terror launchpads across the border could also find a mention at the meeting.
The party will use the occasion to promote its pro-poor and pro-weak credentials by citing several government schemes, including the recent sops announced by Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
BJP’s central election committee is likely to announce the names of party candidates after the auspicious ‘Makar Sankranti’ which falls on January 14.