Prime Minister Narendra Modi will reach Hyderabad on Saturday to attend the BJP national executive meeting, taking place in the southern city after a gap of 18 years and wherein the party is expected to take up its expansion plan in Telangana and upcoming Assembly polls in Gujarat, Himachal Pradesh, Karnataka, Tripura and Madhya
Pradesh.
The two-day national executive on July 2 and 3 will conclude with a massive public rally in Hyderabad, to be addressed by Modi. The rally is expected to be based on the theme of local culture and tradition.
This will be the first physical meeting of the BJP's key decision-making body outside the national capital after a gap of five years and the third in a southern state after coming to power in 2014.
The BJP's national executive meeting is being held in Hyderabad at a time when the party is trying to make further inroads in the state, whereas the K Chandrashekar Rao-led ruling TRS is working To form an alliance to challenge the saffron party at the national level.
In the run up to the meeting, BJP leaders from across the country carried outreach activities and interacted with party workers in all 119 constituencies.
They were asked by the BJP leadership to spend two days in each of Assembly constituencies in the State before reaching the venue of the meeting.
The BJP has done well in a few recent elections including the by-elections of Huzurabad and Dubbaka constituency and the Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation in 2020 when it won 48 seats.
In the 2019 Lok Sabha polls, the BJP had won four Lok Sabha seats in Telangana.
The national executive meeting will begin on Saturday noon with the inaugural speech of BJP president JP Nadda and conclude on Sunday with Modi's address.
An exclusive vegetarian fare will be served to the delegates. Around 10,000 banners, 200 hoardings and flexes have been erected on 10,000 electric poles in the city to welcome top party leaders reaching for the meet that is held quarterly every year.
This is the first major and publicly organised BJP National Executive meet post Covid19 that forced nation-wide lockdown in 2020.