BJP's organisational election likely to be conducted soon

New Delhi: The organisational reshuffle of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is due since last year but after the party chief Amit Shah's elevation as the Union Home Minister, the party top brass is set to hold the organisation poll in a month, party sources said.

Hence, it is believed that the BJP national president and home minister Amit Shah has convened a meeting of key organisation leaders from states and Union Territories on June 13 and 14 at the party headquarters here.

The National Office Bearers and the state and UT president of BJP are asked to join.

However, the reshuffle likely to exempt the Assembly poll-bound states likes Haryana and Maharashtra and Jharkhand.

According to the rule of the party organisation, the respective state and UT wings choose their new chief followed by the national president of BJP. Shah's three-year term had ended earlier this year but the party had asked him to continue to focus on the Lok Sabha elections and postponed the organisational poll. Amit Shah was the most powerful minister in the Narendra Modi government in Gujarat after being appointed as the youngest member of the state cabinet after 2002 assembly election. Except for two years, 2010-12, he has worked with Narendra Modi as his most trusted lieutenant. With Narendra Modi's elevation as the prime ministerial candidate in 2013, Shah was given the daunting task of reviving the BJP in Uttar Pradesh, the gateway to power at the Centre.

In last year, after Assembly elections in five states, new faces were inducted in the central organisation. Currently, there are 12 Vice Presidents, five general secretaries (Org), 30 state general secretaries, seven national general secretaries and 13 national secretaries, according to the party's official website.

The senior functionaries, including state heads and the national president, are elected with a consensus in the saffron party.

The party source further mentioned that on the last day of the two-day programme, Prime Minister Narendra Modi may address. However, the final detail has not been communicated yet.

Meanwhile, the world's largest political party also set to launch the "membership drive" at the micro level nationwide to expand its communication more. This will be followed by reconstitution of the organisation from booth-level onwards in states.

Following that, new members of state councils will elect their respective state chiefs, and then members of the national council will elect a new president.

The BJP organisation rules further say that the process for organisational elections in at least 50 per cent of states and UTs must be completed before a new national president is chosen. However, none of the party leaders has made comment on whether Shah will resign from the party president post as he has been inducted by the Prime Minister Narendra Modi in his cabinet.

The new buzz is mongering that the National Executive meeting will be held in the month of July and the name of the new national president will be announced then. However, no official communication has been done from the Bharatiya Janta Party.