Amit Shah to visit Bengaluru on Dec 31

Bengaluru: Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) national president Amit Shah is visiting Bengaluru on December 31 for a strategy session to counter Congress which turned the Mahadayi roe into a political issue against the BJP in Karnataka.

According to sources, Shah is expected to take stock of the political developments including the Mahadayi row and suggest ways of countering them.Speaking to media persons after the core committee meeting, BJP State general secretary Arvind Limbavali on Tuesday said that Shah was arriving for a day to review the progress of the party’s organisational work.

Among other things, he will review the progress of the work by legislators and MPs who have been given the responsibility of monitoring the party’s organisational strengthening in two constituencies and MLCs who have been assigned one Assembly constituency.Shah will also preside over separate meetings of the core committee as well as that of legislators and MPs during his visit, he said.

Meanwhile, the BJP state unit appears to be jittery over its MP and Union Minister Anantkumar Hegde’s recent controversial remarks ridiculing people who call themselves “secular” as those who are not aware of their “parental blood.”Limbavali said that the BJP has confidence in Dr. B. R. Ambedkar’s Constitution and that it will remain committed to it.