BJP asks cadre to get set for Council, BBMP polls

Key strategist B.L. Santhosh participates in office-bearers’ meeting

The BJP leadership has asked its cadre to be poll-ready with elections to one-third of the seats in the 75-member Legislative Council to be held on December 10 and the overdue Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) council elections later, ahead of the 2023 Assembly battle.

In the BJP office-bearers’ meeting held in Bengaluru on Tuesday,party’s key strategist and national general secretary (Organisation) B.L. Santhosh explained the political context in which the polls were being held. Party national general secretary and State in charge Arun Singh presided over the meeting.

Though the BJP is the largest party in the 75-member Upper House with a tally of 32 seats, the party has to still depend on others to get a passage to the crucial Bills. The BJP is looking at the forthcoming elections as an opportunity to get a comfortable majority which would help it to establish its hold on the Upper House, especially at a time when the party is keen to move towards its core ideology.