Patna, Oct. 15: The state BJP today told partymen that the state was headed for mid-term Assembly polls and exhorted them to work harder to restore lost ground.

"With growing differences between the JDU and RJD over several issues, it is but inevitable the state will go for Assembly polls before 2020," state BJP chief Mangal Pandey said on the concluding day of a two-day state BJP executive meet. "In such a situation, party workers and cadre must prepare for it."

BJP national joint general secretary Saudan Singh, the party's state in-charge Bhupendra Yadav, Union ministers from Bihar in the Narendra Modi cabinet and state leaders also discussed how to strengthen the party.

They asked cadres to carry out special drives and campaigns to reach out to people with the Narendra Modi government's welfare schemes.

"In its two-and-a-half-year tenure, the Narendra Modi government has initiated various welfare schemes such as Jan Dhan Yojana, social security schemes and Pradhan Mantri Ujjwala Yojana among others," Pandey said.

"The party workers will reach out to people and share information about these."

Special campaigns will be conducted. This assumes importance, as reports say Bihar lags behind in implementation of many of the Centre's Aadhaar-based direct benefit transfer schemes.

At a recent function in Patna, Union food and consumer affairs minister Ram Vilas Paswan had said Bihar had linked just 0.13 per cent of its 1.54 crore ration cards to Aadhaar, as against Andhra Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Rajasthan and Telangana with over 90 per cent linkage.

The leaders attending the executive meet also alleged that the Grand Alliance government was creating communal tension in the state.

On the issue of triple talaq, the Bihar's BJP in-charge Bhupendra said many countries, including Pakistan, have regulated it. "Triple talaq is not limited to a section of women. Lakhs of women have filed petitions in the apex court citing that 22 countries, including Pakistan and Iraq, have done away with this defunct act that is against the principles of gender equality," he said.

BJP senior leader Sushil Kumar Modi said: "The JDU should clear its stand on the triple talaq issue. JDU national president and chief minister Nitish Kumar should clear their stand on the issue at the JDU national executive meet starting in Rajgir on Sunday."

The BJP has decided to create a list of internally-graded party workers on the basis of their commitment to publicity work for the party for 15 days, a month, six months or a year before the next Lok Sabha election. These leaders will be trained to be party communicators.