BHUBANESWAR: After the emphatic victory in Uttar Pradesh and Uttarakhand, the BJP seems to have set its eyes on Odisha. National president of the party Amit Shah will visit the State in April for three days.
Though details of his tour programme have not been finalised, Shah will meet booth level workers of the party during his three-day tour to the State, BJP Legislature party leader KV Singhdeo told reporters.
Sources in the party said Shah is likely to visit the State after the BJP national executive committee meeting scheduled on April 15 and 16. Shah’s visit will be part of the party’s decision that each active member would spend at least three nights at mandal (block) level from where one becomes a member of the party which is celebrating a year-long birth centenary of Pandit Deendayal Upadhyay from September 23, 2016.
Incidentally, Shah renewed his party membership from Gopinathpur village in historic Dhauli gram panchayat near here in January, 2015 as each member of BJP needs to renew membership after five years. He had also enrolled 100 others as members of the party as per the provision.
Shah will also thank party workers and leaders for BJP’s success in the recently-concluded panchayat elections where the party captured 297 Zilla Parishad seats and formed Zilla Parishad in eight districts, the sources said.