Karnataka: BJP discusses strategy for ULB, Assembly elections
BJP Tuesday held a special meetingto discuss the party's strategy in the March 7 polls to urbanlocal bodies as well as the Assembly elections, due in May.
Party leaders would be made in charge of each ward, BJPstate general secretary Raghunath Rao Malkapure told reportershere.
BJP has already decided to give tickets to 108 sittingMLAs in the Assembly, while for the remaining 116 seats, theparty has convened a three-day meeting from March 8 onfinalising candidates.
On March 13, the party's state executive committee wouldhold its meeting, which would be attended by BJP nationalPresident Rajnath Singh.
BJP has also formed five teams -- led by Chief MinisterJagadish Shettar and Deputy Chief Ministers K S Eshwarappa(who is also the president of the state unit) and R Ashoka,senior party leader H N Ananth Kumar and former Chief MinisterD V Sadandana Gowda -- which would undertake "rath-yatra" fromMarch 15 to March 29.
On March 31, the party plans to hold a workers'convention here, where 10 lakh people are expected toparticipate, Malkapure said.