Guj BJP workshop tomorrow to discuss 2019 LS poll strategy

The Gujarat BJP will organise a workshop tomorrow to chalk out a strategy for the 2019 Lok Sabha polls in order to repeat its 2014 sweep of all 26 Parliamentary seats in the state.

The parliamentary study and coordination committee workshop would be held in the presence of Chief Minister Vijay Rupani, BJP national general secretary and party's state in charge Bhupendra Yadav, state unit president Jitu Vaghani and national joint general secretary V Satish, said Gujarat BJP media convener Harshad Patel.

He informed that the workshop would be attended by the BJP's state core team, Lok Sabha election organising committee members, the in charges of 26 Lok Sabha seats as well as its units in cities and districts apart from functionaries of various morchas of the party.

"The one-day workshop is being organised as part of the party's preparation for the upcoming 2019 general election. It will be held tomorrow in which presentations will be made and poll strategies discussed," Patel said.

The BJP had won all 26 Lok Sabha seats in the state in the 2014 general elections but got a tough fight from the Congress in the Assembly polls held in 2017.

Its tally was restricted to 99 out of the 182 Assembly seats and the party failed to open its account in districts like Morbi, Amreli and Gir Somnath.

The party had also organised a brainstorming session in June for LS seats in Gujarat, the home state of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and party national president Amit Shah.