NEW DELHI: With a little less than two years to go for the 2019 Lok Sabha elections , the ruling BJP has started preparing for the challenge by setting itself a target of winning over 350 seats.The focus of a strategy meeting called by party chief Amit Shah at the party headquarters here on Thursday was to concentrate on 115-plus seats that the BJP has never won before.These seats spread across eastern, north-eastern and southern parts of the country could help the party improve upon its 2014 tally of 282.At Thursday’s meeting, the focus was to give some Union ministers, who have earlier been party functionaries, BJP general secretaries, organisational secretaries and a few others like Lok Sabha MP RK Singh, the charge of clusters of seats to ensure that they can be won in the next Lok Sabha election, according to sources.The idea is to take into account that the party may lose about 50 to 60 seats that it won in 2014 and hence to make up for it, it should target at least 115 new seats, say party insiders.A cluster of five seats each was entrusted to law minister Ravi Shankar Prasad in Assam (like Silchar, Barpeta…), health minister JP Nadda and telecom minister Manoj Sinha in West Bengal, petroleum minister Dharmendra Pradhan in Kerala, power minister Piyush Goyal in Tamil Nadu.Apart from these five, other ministers who attended the meeting were commerce minister Nirmala Sitharaman, HRD minister Prakash Javdekar, minister of state for finance Arjunram Meghwal etc.Party general secretaries Ram Madhav, Bhupendra Yadav, Arun Singh and others have also been attached to specific seats to work alongside the Union ministers to ensure winnability in the seats that have so far not worked in favour of the party, but have shown some signs of tilting towards it if given the right push.According to party insiders, internal surveys have indicated favourable results for the party in close to 300 seats. However, in keeping with the manner in which Amit Shah likes to work, the target has been stretched to attempt 350 seats.