BJP National Executive meeting on March 19-20

With the party facing a number of challenges, including polls in five states, a meeting of BJP's National Executive on March 19-20 is expected to give final touches to its strategy to regain political momentum after its drubbing in Bihar polls.
The two-day National Executive in the national capital is expected to set the tone for the party's approach to headwinds facing it, more so as it comes at a time when the saffron outfit is being seen at its lowest ebb since storming to power at the Centre in 2014.
After the Bihar setback and amid a view that its governments in Gujarat and Haryana have lost some political capital owing to Patel and Jat quota stirs, the challenge before the BJP is to regain its ground and push its expansion.

The meeting will occur days after the first leg of the Budget Session ends on March 16 and issues like JNU row and a Dalit scholar's suicide in the Hyderabad Central University can also come up discussion after the opposition has used them to flay the government.
Besides assembly polls in Assam, Kerala, Puduchery, Tamil Nadu and West Bengal, which are likely in April-May, the party's biggest challenge lies ahead in the UP polls early next year.
Before the exercise, party chief Amit Shah, who was re-elected to the post last month, will reconstitute the executive and other national bodies of party, a move that will shed light on the internal dynamics within the saffron outfit.

"We will obviously discuss key political issues. It will be during the session so that the burning issues will be deliberated. We expect that the meeting will re-energise the cadre ahead of state elections. We are seeing an increasingly hostile and united opposition against BJP," sources said.
The last meeting of the National Executive was held in Bengaluru in April last year.
The party's office bearers will meet on the first day and the executive's meeting will begin in the evening. It will conclude the next days, sources said.