COIMBATORE

05 July 2018 00:00 IST

Rules out leadership change at the State-level for now

BJP national general secretary P. Muralidhar Rao on Wednesday said that this was the most opportune time for the party to grow in Tamil Nadu and that it would become a formidable political force in the future.

“Tamil Nadu politics is at the threshold of a new era; the old leadership is gone and there are new leaders for parties that have ruled the State for the past 50 years. In this context, the 2019 General Election is very, very important for the party,” he said at a press conference in Coimbatore.

The State unit of the BJP would devise a strategy after party national president Amit Shah’s visit on July 9; as part of the visit, he would meet over 11,000 party workers, each of who is in charge of five booths.

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At the meeting, the party would decide on how to approach the 2019 election and what strategy to be adopted. Mr. Shah would also gather Assembly Constituency-wise inputs for party leaders.

Whether the party would go in for an alliance or not would be decided later, but it did not rule out alliances. And, it was not in for any change in the State leadership.

At the national level too, though a few parties had left the BJP-led National Democratic Alliance coalition, the BJP would face the 2019 election with more political allies.

In response to a question on the Salem-Chennai green corridor project, he said the State Government should take steps to see that the farmers were not victimised.