The city has been decked up to host the three-day crucial national council meeting of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) beginning on Friday.
The entire Central government machinery, including the Prime Minister’s Office will function from Kozhikode for two days. Facilities have also been made for other Union Ministries, if required, especially for Home and Defence.
1,700 delegates
About 1,700 delegates, including Union Ministers, Chief Ministers, Deputy Chief Ministers of BJP-ruled -States, Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha, MPs will take part in the meeting. Closed-door sessions of party office-bearers will be held at the Kadavu Resort.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who will fly down on September 24 will address a public rally on the Kozhikode beach in the evening. He will also take part in the reunion gathering of delegates of the erstwhile Jan Sangh of 1967 at the Zamorin’s High School at Tali at 7.30 p.m. The Prime Minister will stay at the Kozhikode government guest house amid tight security. More than 2,000 police personnel have been deployed for the mega meet.
Mr. Modi will inaugurate the year-long birth centenary celebrations of Deendayal Upadhayaya centenary celebrations at the Swpana Nagari, the venue of the national council meeting, on September 25, H. Raja, BJP national secretary said. Mr. Raja said that the meeting would deliberate on various political and economics issues, including Kashmir. The council would concentrate on the strategies of different States, especially Kerala where it had registered 16 per cent of total votes in the recent Assembly polls.
“Certainly the conference will take stock of the situation in Kerala as about 400 violent incidents have taken place against the BJP and RSS workers after the CPI (M) led government came to power in the State,” he said.
BJP State general secretary M.T. Ramesh said arrangements had been made for delegates accommodation, entertainment programmes giving them a slice of State’s cultural heritage, and a special Onam Sadhya for the 2,000 guests. Exhibitions on the life of Upadhyaya, history of Jan Sangh and the BJP and the atrocities committed by CPI(M) and Islamic fundamentalists will be also be held, he said.
