The RJD will hold its three-day national executive meet in Rajgir from May 2 to chalk out strategies to counter the BJP and the RSS, with special emphasis on the plan for the 2019 Lok Sabha elections.

The meeting would aim at galvanising party workers to counter the saffron challenge.

Party chief Lalu Prasad will address the executive committee meeting. He, his wife Rabri Devi, their two minister sons - Tej Pratap Yadav and Tejashwi Prasad Yadav, and eldest daughter and Rajya Sabha member Misa Bharti, will also be present through the three days.

"The main agenda of the meeting would be how to stop the communal and fascist forces spreading their wings in other states, especially after the Uttar Pradesh Assembly election results," RJD state unit president Ram Chandra Purbey told The Telegraph. "The RSS and the BJP are an anti-Dalit and anti-Muslim organisation and they have made up their mind to end reservation. We will encourage our party workers to expose the RSS agenda ahead of the 2019 elections. During the meeting, we will highlight the failures of the Narendra Modi government at the Centre. Through the meeting we will appeal to likeminded political parties to come on one platform to defeat the communal forces."

Last month, Lalu had called a meeting of MLAs, MLCs, MPs and districts-in-charge in which he had briefed the leaders about the proposed meeting. He had categorically pointed out that to defeat the BJP in the 2019 Lok Sabha polls, it was important for all secular parties to join hands together. He had warned about the RSS's bid to "enter Bihar" from the Seemanchal region through its wing Hindu Yuva Vahini, and the BJP has already decided to hold its state executive committee meet for the first time in the Muslim-heavy district of Kishanganj on April 24 and 25.

Both chief minister Nitish Kumar and Lalu Prasad have publicly spoken about the need for a united national front to stop the Narendra Modi juggernaut. Lalu had gone on to say that all political parties would be finished if they do not unite against the BJP.

For the first two days of the RJD meet, a training camp will be held at the Rajgir International Convention Centre in which around 1,500 RJD leaders will be present.

Earlier, the meet was to be held in Bodhgaya but owing to unavailability of a proper venue, it has been shifted to Rajgir. Lalu will deliver the inaugural speech, followed by other senior leaders of the party including national vice-president Raghuvansh Prasad Singh.

Among the other issues the party will focus on are creation of job opportunities for unemployed youth, social justice, development, and maintaining communal harmony at the national level.

"We will tell party workers how the Grand Alliance in Bihar has become successful and the nation will go forward if the same is repeated at the national-level," Purbey said. "Job for youths and maintaining communal harmony would be other issues on which different leaders will speak during the meet."