BJP national executive: Crucial meet to set 2019 Lok Sabha agenda

NEW DELHI: With just months to go for the 2019 Lok Sabha polls , BJP will hold a two-day national executive meeting from Saturday with a focus on the Modi's government's welfare schemes and outreach to Dalits.The meeting will be held at the Ambedkar International Centre, the venue chosen to send out a message to the restive Dalit community. Former PM Atal Bihari Vajpayee , who died last month, will loom large over the proceedings, with BJP hoping to ride on the saffron veteran's popularity in the year-end assembly polls in four states.Poll-bound states will be discussed in detail as the party is seeking re-election in Rajasthan, MP and Chhattisgarh where it faces a direct fight with Congress. BJP will also look to make inroads in Telangana, where the assembly has been dissolved and the state may see elections around the same time.Other issues up for discussion would be the economy, Dalit unrest, Kashmir and the recent arrest of activists on charges of being sympathisers of "banned, antinational" elements. BJP sources said the political resolution as well as the address by party chief Amit Shah on the opening day and Modi's closing speech on Sunday will touch upon these issues.The party will highlight welfare schemes like Jan Dhan, Ujala, Ujjwala, crop insurance and Ayushman Bharat that the Modi government has initiated for the poor since it came to office in 2014.