Patna, Aug. 31: Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), the principal Opposition party at the Centre, has started preparing for the Lok Sabha elections almost three years in advance with price-rise and corruption topping its poll agenda.

“The party’s two-day state executive committee meeting is scheduled to be held on September 3 and 4 at Vaishali. The meeting will dwell at length on the party’s strategy to galvanise common people on the issue of price-rise and corruption right up to the village- and panchayat-levels,” a senior BJP leader said.

The party’s core group met at the party headquarters today to discuss preparations for the working committee meeting, sources said. The meeting was attended by party state president C.P. Thakur, deputy chief minister Sushil Kumar Modi, ministers Nand Kishore Yadav and Ashwini Kumar Choubey, MP Radha Mohan Singh and Narendraji, the organisational secretary, who is also the ex-officio member of the core panel.