BJP workshops for OBC leaders

With an eye on the next Lok Sabha poll, the BJP will organise training workshops across the country for its leaders from backward castes and other backward class morchas. The focus will be on Uttar Pradesh and Bihar, party sources said.

OBC leaders who have joined the BJP will also be invited to the meetings. The strategy to retain the party’s base and expand it among other backward caste voters will be shared during the workshops, they said.

At least one training session will be organised in each State, while six such meetings are planned in Uttar Pradesh and three in Bihar, they said. Party chief Amit Shah is expected to attend the national workshop.

All the workshops will be organised in July-August.

A decision in this regard was taken at a brainstorming session for training of OBC morchas at the party office here. It was addressed by party general secretary Muralidhar Rao.