Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Home Minister Amit Shah and BJP chief JP Nadda are attending the party's national executive meeting, which is being held for the first time since the pandemic, reports NDTV. The main agenda is likely to be the election strategy in the five poll-bound states early next year. These states are Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Punjab, Goa and Manipur.

“PM Modi is expected to deliver a key address at the meeting, which is being attended by 124 national executive members. Several Chief Ministers and members from different states joined virtually," NDTV added. The party will also highlight its efforts to come to people's rescue during the pandemic.

"In view of the ongoing COVID-19 protocols, all state presidents, state general secretaries (organisation) and national executive members of that respective state will attend the meeting virtually from their respective state party offices," the BJP said in a communication to all its state units.

In his speech at the meeting, Union minister Dharmendra Pradhan Minister, underlined the government's measures during the pandemic. "Along with a pandemic comes economic devastation and starvation, but strong decisions were taken by the Prime Minister at the right time," he said. He also emphasised that the economy was being revived because of apt decisions by Modi. On the pandemic, he said that 30 per cent of Indians are fully vaccinated and the country has touched 100 crore vaccines. " We had the largest food programme in the history of mankind," he added.

The bypoll results in three Lok Sabha and 29 assembly seats in 13 states and a UT would definitey be a prerogative. The Congress victory in one Lok Sabha and three assembly seats in Himachal Pradesh ruled by the saffron party, has rattled the BJP. However, it was a winner in the northeast, bagging all nine seats and Madhya Pradesh. The party is also holding exhibitions about the government's Aatmanirbhar Bharat programmes and other pro-poor measures such as providing free grains to the poor and the Covid vaccination exercise, added PTI.

(With inputs from PTI)