New Delhi, June 12: A strategy to counter the Congress in the four states of Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan, Chhattisgarh and Delhi will be discussed in detail at a meeting of the BJP national campaign committee today. The meeting to be attended by party president M Venkaiah Naidu will list the shortcomings of the four state governments and their non-performance and also discuss various aspects of the preparations by the party for the elections, party spokesman Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi told reporters. With the party attaching considerable importance to these assembly elections, the committee is likely to have an indepth discussion on the strategy.

The meeting will discuss the impact of the tours undertaken in the state by its chief ministerial candidates and state leaders. These include Vasundhare Raje's campaign in Rajasthan, Uma Bharati in Madhya Pradesh and that of Union Minister Dilip Singh Judev in Chhattisgarh. A day ahead of the meeting of the campaign committee, a meeting of the core group for the Delhi assembly elections was held by the Convenor of the campaign committee, Pramod Mahajan. The meeting was attended by among others V K Malhotra, Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi and Madan Lal Khurana.

Bureau Report