Amit Shah to visit Tripura in January, address party workers

Agartala, Dec 28 BJP national president Amit Shah would visit Tripura on January 5 to check the party's preparedness for the Lok Sabha elections planned next year.

During the visit, Shah would address a meeting of 'Pristha Pramukhs', viewed as the saffron party's organisational backbone.

There would be no open rally as it would be absolutely a hierarchical issue, and just 'Pristha Pramukhs' would take an interest in the gathering separated from state-level leaders of the party.

"Amit Shahji is scheduled to visit the state to address a 'Pristha Pramukh sanmmelan' at Vivekananda Ground on January 5. Amid the gathering, he will check the hierarchical execution and give some must-to-do assignments to the 'Pristha Pramukhs' for the 2019 general decisions," the gathering's main representative, Ashok Sinha, said Friday.

Tripura Chief Minister Biplab Kumar Deb, who is also the BJP state president, held an emergent meeting at the party headquarters Thursday night to prepare the ground for the conference.

Starting at now, the party has engaged 700 to 1,000 'Pristha Pramukhs' for each of the Assembly constituencies in order to reach out to people.

Buoyed by the landslide victory in the current year's Assembly elections, the BJP has set an objective to win both the Lok Sabha constituencies - West Tripura and East Tripura in the 2019 general elections.