Patna Bhupender Yadav, BJP national general secretary and party in-charge for Bihar, on Sunday asked functionaries to bring in new faces and spread word about the party's achievements and policies right up to the grass-root level.

Yadav was speaking to office-bearers of cells and wings of the party on the second day of his Bihar visit. Bihar BJP president Nityanand Rai and organisational general-secretary Nagendra Nath were also present. This was Yadav's first visit to the state after BJP came into power in Bihar in July last year, and is being seen as part of the preparations for BJP national president Amit Shah's likely visit.

"The Lok Sabha elections are the party's top priority," said a BJP insider. "Shah is a tough task master, and Yadav wants to galvanise the office-bearers so that all tasks are accomplished in time."

While the party has set up panchayat-level committees, it is still to do so at around 30 per cent of the state's 62,780 polling booths.

Yadav held a series of meetings with party leaders, including one at the residence of Union minister Ravi Shankar Prasad that almost all senior leaders of the party including Prasad and Union agriculture minister Radha Mohan Singh attended.

"The strengthening of the organisational structure of the party and enhancing its penetration right up to the grass-root level remained the main focus of the meeting," said a senior BJP leader who was present at the meeting.