KOZHIKODE: The BJP has left no stone unturned in making the national executive and council meetings here from Friday to Sunday a mega event though the central government is under pressure following the terrorist strike at the Uri Army camp. Prime Minister Narendra Modi will arrive at Karipur airport at 3. 45 p.m. on Saturday as scheduled. BJP national president Amit Shah will kick off the year-long birth centenary celebrations of Deendayal Upadhyaya at Kadavu resort on Friday morning.
Mr Amit Shah arrived here a day ahead of the programme. Apart from attending the delegates’ session, Mr Modi will address a public rally on Kozhikode beach on Saturday evening. He will then attend the ‘Smriti Sandhya’ programme at the Zamorin's Higher Secondary School where the Jan Sangh's meeting was hosted 50 years ago. Deendayal Upadhyaya was then elected as the all-India president of the party. The national executive will begin at Kadavu resort at 10 a.m. on Friday with all national general secretaries being huddled for a brain-storming session.
At 3 p.m., the national office-bearers, state presidents and state organising secretaries will meet for a prolonged session. At a meeting at the Zamorin’s Higher Secondary School at 7.45 p.m., Mr Modi will felicitate the senior BJP leaders who had attended the 1967 Jan Sangh summit. Veteran BJP leaders like L.K. Advani, Murali Manohar Joshi, V. K. Malhotra, O. Rajagopal, K. Raman Pillai and a plethora of other senior leaders would be present. Those who were locked up in jails in Kerala during the Emergency would also be felicitated.
Mr Modi will attend the full-day session of the national council at Swapnanagari grounds from 9.30 a.m. till 5.30 p.m. on Sunday, which will pass a political resolution. By 5. 45 p.m., Mr Modi will leave for New Delhi by a special flight. A photo exhibition, ‘Upadhyanam 2016’ is also being held at Malabar Christian College grounds where the pictures of the strikes and protests the Sangh Parivar had staged over the last several decades and those of the Jan Sangh summit in 1967 will be displayed. It will conclude on Sunday evening. The BJP state leadership claims that 1,700 leaders would be in Kozhikode during the three days and the majority of them have already landed. Some 400 media personnel would throng the Kadavu resort and Swapnanagari grounds on all the three days.
