The meeting, held on Friday night, lasted for five hours and involved discussions on how to finalise the campaign plan and strategy.
 "BJP holds marathon meeting to discuss strategy for Mahathir assembly elections")
Press Trust of India Mumbai
The Maharashtra unit of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) held a marathon meeting here to discuss strategy for the upcoming state assembly elections, sources said on Saturday.
The meeting, which took place on Friday night, reportedly lasted five hours and involved discussions on how to plan the campaign and finalise the strategy.
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Elections for the 288-member state assembly are expected to be held in October.
In the recent Indian Lok Sabha elections, the BJP’s number of seats in Maharashtra fell from 23 to 9. The ruling Mahayuti party, consisting of the BJP, Eknath Shinde’s Shiv Sena and Ajit Pawar’s NCP, managed to win just 17 of the 48 Lok Sabha seats, while the opposition Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA), a three-party alliance of the Indian National Congress, NCP (SP) and Shiv Sena (UBT), won 30 seats.
Talking about the meeting, a BJP source said, “In the first meeting, which lasted for five hours, they discussed the preliminary plans prepared for the state assembly elections.”
The action plan will be finalised soon and further meetings are planned,” he said. The core committee meeting was attended by Union Minister Piyush Goyal, Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) general secretary Vinod Tawde, the party’s state president Chandrashekhar Bawankule, Mumbai unit chief Ashish Shelar and senior leaders Raosaheb Danve and Pankaja Munde.
Maritime sharing talks with allies will be held at a later date, the sources added.
The BJP currently has 104 seats in the 288-seat Lok Sabha. In 2019, the unified Shiv Sena won 56 seats in coalition with the BJP. But the Uddhav Thackeray-led party broke off ties with the BJP after a dispute over sharing the chief minister’s post.
