New Delhi: The opposition Bharatiya Janata Party has called its national executive meeting anticipating early polls in the country.
Anticipating victories in Gujarat and Himachal Pradesh, the party is convinced that defeat of the Congress party would create trouble within the Congress-led United Progressive Alliance government at the centre forcing fresh Lok Sabha elections.
The BJP has already taken the lead by announcing Leader of Opposition Lal Krishna Advani would be its prime ministerial candidate. His selection to run for the top post has already been endorsed by the parent Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), clearing all doubts about support to him by the organisations.
BJP President Rajnath Singh has convened meeting of the party's national executive to deliberate party's preparedness for the Lok Sabha polls. The two-day national executive meeting to be held on January 20 and 21 is to be followed by the national council meeting on January 23.
According to sources in the BJP, while the national executive will formulate strategies to keep the party ready for Lok Sabha polls, originally scheduled for April-May 2009, the strategy would be conveyed to state and district level office-bearers who constitute the national council.
While BJP is anticipating early Lok Sabha polls, it is even ready to bide for its time. The alternative strategy to be discussed at the national executive meet is to follow the model adopted by Gujarat chief minister Narendra Modi.
Modi had started his campaign in Gujarat a year before schedule. If the outcome goes in favour of the BJP, it would replicate it at the national level.