The BJP National Executive will meet in Allahabad in Uttar Pradesh on June 12-13 to discuss and work out preparations for the UP Assembly polls due next year.
In meetings held last week, the party' s top leadership divided the State into six zones for a campaign. It's also said to be going for intelligent caste arithmetic. Having selected Keshav Prasad Maurya, a non-Yadav OBC, as State unit chief, it has opted for appointing upper caste heads for all these zones. Laxman Acharya has been given the charge of Kashi division which includes the Prime Minister Narendra Modi's constituency of Varanasi, Upendra Shukla Gorakhpur (eastern UP), B L Verma Braj (Western U.P.), Manvendra Singh Kanpur and Bundelkhand, Bhupendra Chaudhary the rest of Western U.P. and Mukut Bihari Awadh.
For the first time, the BJP will have separate prabharis for districts and cities to oversee and monitor campaign duties. "A call is yet to be taken on whether to project a face for U.P. or not," Indianmandarins was informed.
Shah's trusted 2014 team is already part of the organisational structure of the State unit, including Sunil Bansal and national secretary Mahendra Singh, a key aide of Shah in UP and who was deputed to Assam during the Assembly polls there.