Mangaluru: BSY inaugurates state BJP executive committee meet

Mangaluru: Chief Minister BS Yediyurappa on Thursday, November 5 inaugurated the Bharatiya Janata Party’s State executive committee meeting here.

The state executive committee meeting is being held in Mangaluru after two decades and the day-long meeting will also have a core committee meeting, over 120 leaders including Chief Minister B S Yediyurappa are present at the meeting.

Though it is a common practice for the party to hold it at regular intervals, this meeting has attracted political attention in the wake of speculations that the party high command is considering a change of guard. However, the sources in the party made it clear that no such discussion was on the agenda and maintained that the meet would not deviate from the agenda.

State BJP office-bearers, presidents, and secretaries of various morchas, conveners, and co-conveners of various cells, heads of various divisions, and organizational secretaries will take part in the meeting.

Union ministers D V Sadananda Gowda, Pralhad Joshi, and BJP National General Secretary C T Ravi are also present in the executive committee meeting.

The valedictory of the meeting is likely to be attended by BJP National General Secretary (organisation) B L Santhosh, he said.