The stage is set for the crucial meeting of Bharatiya Janata Party’s state executive committee at Jhansi this weekend following announcement of a jumbo-size executive committee.
BJP state president Keshav Prasad Maurya announced the 255-member executive committee that has former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee, lal Krishna Advani and PM Narendra Modi as special invitees.
Kashi region has the maximum number of 68 members. Rupesh Pandey, the man who made controversial poster depicting Maurya as ‘lord Krishna’ a couple of months back, has been included in the list from Varanasi city.
The Awadh region has 51 members. They include Dr Ram Kapoor, an eye specialist from Chowk in lucknow. It is his maiden entry into the BJP state executive committee.
The western UP has 42 members, followed by Gorakhpur region (37), Braj region (29) and Kanpur-Bundelkhand region (28).
Almost all BJP leaders handling media have been accommodated in the state executive committee. Among them, Dr Chandra Mohan is from west UP, Harish Srivastava from lucknow in Awadh region list, IP Singh from Gorakhpur region list. Yash Bharti awardee Narendra Singh Rana also finds a place in the list.
The much-awaited announcement came five days before the first state executive committee meeting under Maurya’s presidentship, scheduled to be held in Jhansi on August 6 and 7.
Meanwhile, BJP state general secretary Vijay Bahadur Pathak said that preparations for the executive committee meeting were underway on a war footing and around 600 members would participate in the meet.
He said the meeting would be inaugurated at 11 am on August 6 and conclude the next day in the afternoon. On the evening of August 5, a meeting of state office-bearers would be held to finalise the agenda of the state executive committee meeting.
“The meet will discuss the proposed ‘Tiranga yatra’ to be taken out betweenAugust 15 and 22. In this yatra, the party workers will popularise the Central government schemes meant for the poor,” Pathak said.