Five-day ahead of the counting, BJP president Rajnath Singh on Sunday met the RSS leaders and is understood to have discussed 'the party strategy and options' after the results were announced by the Election Commission.
Top RSS leaders including Bhaiyaji Joshi and RSS points man in dealing with BJP Suresh Soni held a closed-door meeting with the BJP president for nearly two hours at the RSS office in Jhandewalan.Singh's meeting with RSS leaders comes a day after BJP's prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi held a meeting with Bhagwat on Saturday. The RSS chief was not present in Sunday's meeting.
Singh discussed the party strategy keeping in view of the last phase of polling on Monday and counting of votes on May 16.“RSS workers have worked hard at the ground level to make the BJP candidates win in the elections and Rajnath has come to express his gratitude for this to the Sangh,” said sources close to the party president. They denied any political discussion in the meeting.
Asked about the meeting, BJP spokesperson Meenashi lekhi said leaders do meet their ‘well wishers’ and ‘elders’.