Chennai: BJP national chief Amit Shah is likely to visit Chennai early next month and interact with party seniors and booth-level workers.
During his three-day visit from May 10 he is expected to prepare the party for the 2019 Lok Sabha polls and hammer out a strategy to make the Tamil Nadu BJP, which is sparsely represented in the Lok Sabha, enlarge. Though the saffron party has to work hard to attain larger proportion, in a changed political environment post-Jayalalithaa, the BJP here hopes to achieve this Herculean task. The state unit, which was able to send only two MPs during the 2014 Lok Sabha polls, has high hopes of winning more seats this time.
According to sources, the party high command is likely to field new faces for the next LS elections. "The party has already nominated incharge for each of the 39 LS seats in the state and we have already initiated measures to strengthen the party at booth level," says BJP senior M. Chakravarthy. During his visit, Shah would obtain the feedback of the leaders and cadres.
