Patna: Two BJP central leaders - party national general secretary and Bihar in-charge Bhupender Yadav and national joint secretary (organisation) Saudan Singh - will be arriving in the state for a day-long interaction with party leaders ahead of next year's general elections.

They will hold a daylong meeting with sitting BJP MPs and MLAs, MLCs, those who contested on a party ticket but lost and party office-bearers at Gyan Bhavan on Tuesday.

The party wants to put its machinery on the ground in top gear a year ahead of scheduled Lok Sabha polls. "It would be a brainstorming session in which the two senior leaders would assess the party's preparedness for general election and try to figure out the issues that are of importance to the state," a BJP functionary said preferring anonymity.

Over 400 BJP leaders are scheduled to attend the meet for which they have been asked to reach the venue at 9am. Even leaders from the party's district units - president and district in-charge - have been told to attend the meeting.

"It would not be a one-way traffic," a senior BJP leader and minister in the state's NDA government, said. "The central leaders would listen to points raised by participants during the meeting." He said that this was a way of collecting ground information on issues of importance for the state, for which the party would devise strategies accordingly.

The Dalit issue is likely to came up for discussion but party office-bearers are not sure whether it would be taken up separately. "All important issues would be discussed but the main focus would be on the organisation and its preparedness," said the BJP functionary.

The two leaders will also assess the party organisation's preparedness at the grassroots level, given that one of the core agendas of the party has been to strengthen the organisation at the booth level. As things stand now, of 62-000 and odd polling booths in Bihar, the party has already constituted booth-level committees in over 50,000 booths and efforts were being made to ensure cent per cent coverage latest by the end of the third quarter of the current year.

Tuesday's meeting would be a closed-door meeting. Party sources said the leadership had still not issued any instructions whether the media would be allowed to cover the event. There was also no word on whether there would be any official briefing after the meeting.