Key Karnataka BJP meet on Friday, to discuss poll strategy, organisation
Bengaluru, Jul 14: Karnataka BJP has called for a key party meet on Friday to discuss the strategy for 2023 Assembly polls and organisational matters.
Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai, BJP national General Secretary in-charge of Karnataka Arun Singh, State party president Nalin Kumar Kateel and other senior leaders of the party met on Thursday and held discussions on the meet.
"We discussed Friday's Chintana Sabhe. Organisational matters, how to further strengthen the party, also how to face the upcoming elections politically, what issues should be raised and discussed, and decided upon... we discussed them," Bommai said.
Speaking to reporters after the meeting at the party office here, he said the meeting which would begin at 9 AM on Friday would be attended by over 50 delegates, including Cabinet Ministers, party's State core committee members and senior leaders.
"Other than these issues, other issues may also come up for discussion, there will be an opportunity for an open discussion...after this, on the basis of an agenda, our programmes and organisational work will be taken forward. After Friday's discussion, a clear picture will be known," he added.
Brewing discontent in the party following no decision on Cabinet expansion or rejig, allegations of corruption against the government and reservation demand by various communities are also likely to come up for discussion at the meet.
According to sources, following this meeting, Bommai, along with Singh and senior BJP leaders, is likely to meet top RSS leadership.
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Bengal polls: RG Kar victim's mother files nomination as BJP candidate from Panihati
Kolkata (PTI): Ratna Debnath, mother of the raped-murdered RG Kar hospital doctor and the BJP candidate from Panihati, filed her nomination papers on Thursday.
She was accompanied by senior BJP leader and former Union minister Smriti Irani and district party leaders.
Speaking to reporters after filing her nomination, she said her sole aim is to oust the TMC regime in West Bengal, which, she alleged, would ensure women's safety in the state and prevent a recurrence of incidents like the RG Kar case.
Nearly a year and a half after the brutal killing of her 26-year-old daughter inside a locked seminar room of the state-run hospital in August 2024, Debnath agreed to contest the polls on a BJP ticket from her hometown Panihati after being approached by the party "to bring to light the truth behind the crime".
She is pitted against TMC's Tirthankar Ghosh and CPI(M)'s Kalatan Dasgupta.
