Patna, Aug. 20: BJP national president Amit Shah today gave a new mantra " Booth jeeto, chunav jeeto" (win booths, win the polls) to the party's state leaders and cadres for the Assembly elections.

Shah, who was in Patna today, held a series of meetings with senior BJP leaders and party office-bearers, and asked them to concentrate on booth-level management.

In Bihar, there are around 60,000 booths. Sources said Shah asked the state BJP leaders to focus on booth-level management with at least 10 party cadres deployed in every booth. Also, the cadres and leaders have been asked to visit a booth at least thrice before the elections. There are around 60,000 booths across the state.

Shah, who was in Patna attending a function later in the evening, held separate meetings with Sushil Kumar Modi, Nand Kishore Yadav, state BJP unit president Mangal Pandey and BJP organisational secretary Nagendra Jee. Shah asked the state BJP leaders to reach the booth-level, highlighting the achievements of the Narendra Modi government and the announcement of special package made by Prime Minister Narendra Modi at a function in Ara recently. Shah's meeting was in progress till the filing of the report late on Thursday evening.

In another development, former deputy chief minister Sushil Kumar Modi today lobbed a series of questions at chief minister Nitish Kumar, who has been claiming that the announcement of the special package was not new but repackaging of old projects. Modi had asked whether the bridge on river Ganga parallel to Mahatma Gandhi Setu in Patna and another bridge on the same river connecting Manihari-Sahebganj in Jharkhand were new projects or old.

Shooting a question to the chief minister, Sushil Modi said: "Nitish should explain whether the eight new bridges and two new central universities are old projects or not."

The senior Bihar BJP leader stated that the bridge on Ganga in Mokama, the bridge on river Kosi in Supaul, the bridge on river Sone connecting Nauhatta in Rohtas with Srinagar in Garhwa (Jharkhand) are new projects.

According to the special package, Bihar would have first multi-skill university and another central university in Bhagalpur. Sushil said Nitish had been shouting about repackaging of old projects but he should explain why work on the Patna-Ara-Buxar four-laning project had not commenced during the UPA government tenure.

At a function in Ara on August 18, Prime Minister Narendra Modi had announced a whopping Rs 1.25-lakh crore special package for the state.

"Nitish should explain what the UPA government had given to the state in past decade. Under the Backward Regions Grant Fund Programme, the state, during the UPA-II tenure, received Rs 12,000 crore but the government could spend only Rs 4,000 crore and the Prime Minister even announced giving Rs 8,000 crore," said Sushil Modi.