The Bihar BJP plans to try and increase its core vote share by 10 per cent in the next three years, which the party believes will be enough to unseat the Nitish Kumar government.

On the first day of the state BJP executive meet, party leaders chanted the mantra of increasing vote share to its party workers.

The two-day state executive meet at veteran party leader Sushil Kumar Modi's 1 Polo Road residence declared that "every election from panchayat to Parliament is important" to expand its electoral and ideological influence - the mantra by Prime Minister Narendra Modi at BJP national executive in Allahabad three days ago.

Senior BJP leaders attending the executive meet directed their cadre and party workers to focus on increasing its base among all sections of the society. Inaugurating the state executive meet, Sushil said: "In 2014 general election and 2015 Assembly elections, the BJP vote percentage difference was 10 per cent. If the party can make inroads in this vote share, the BJP will be in a comfortable position in the 2019 general election and 2020 Assembly elections."

In the 2014 Lok Sabha elections, when Modi's popularity was at its peak, the BJP got a 30 per cent vote, the JDU got 16 per cent, the RJD managed 20 per cent, the Congress got 9 per cent and the LJP mustered 6 per cent.

Sources said in the 2015 Assembly elections, though the BJP managed to win only 53 seats in the keenly contested elections, has got the maximum share of votes polled. At 24.4 per cent, the BJP got a total of 92,85,574 votes in Bihar. However, the total votes polled by the NDA was 1.3 crore. Similarly, the RJD, which emerged as single largest party with 80 seats, got 18.4 per cent of votes while the JDU, which won 71 seats, got 16.8 per cent of the votes.

The state executive meet, attended by all senior state leaders, including Sushil, Nand Kishore Yadav, state president Mangal Pandey, Leader of Opposition in Assembly Prem Kumar, deliberated on the agenda to increase the party's vote share.

Mangal asked the cadres to reach to people with the various beneficiaries scheme launched by the Modi government in the past two years. He said: "The party workers should reach to people, highlighting the central schemes, which directly affect the masses such as Jan Dhan Yojana, insurance schemes and free LPG distribution to people."

Mangal said in 2012 when the party was having 91 MLAs the party had 43,000 active members. In 2015, the party's active members strength rose to 65,000 though the party could win only 53 seats in the Assembly polls.

However, the party leaders were silent on the BJP's membership drive, which was held last year before the Assembly elections. The state BJP, before the Assembly elections, carried out a membership drive by enrolling around 75 lakh members in the state but despite its success the party failed to maintain the momentum.