New Delhi, Mar 06: The top leaders of the Bharatiya Janata Party today held a two-and-half-hour long meeting to discuss the poll strategies to be adopted by the party in Uttar Pradesh, Jharkhand, Orissa and Karnataka. The meeting at the residence of Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee was attended by Deputy Prime Minister L K Advani, Finance Minister Jaswant Singh, HRD Minister Murli Manohar Joshi, BJP President M Venkaiah Naidu and General Secretary Pramod Mahajan. It considered the reports of surveys conducted by independent agencies in the four states. Mr. Mahajan is also understood to have given a power point presentation to the leaders The surveys are understood to have indicated the constituencies where the individual BJP MPs are facing anti-incumbency factor and the constituencies where this factor could be rectified In constituencies where situation was beyond rectification, the party might choose not to renominate them. Sources believe that this figure might range from 30 to 35 MPs in the dissolved Lok Sabha.
While none of the leaders spoke to the waiting media after the meeting, sources said it considered the issues to be raised by Advani during his two-phase ''bharat Uday Yatra'' commencing from Kanyakumari on March 10. ?

Bureau Report