Prime Minister Narendra Modi will be the star attraction of the event.
New Delhi: With Bihar going for Assembly elections next year, the state BJP unit has started galvanising its cadre and extending its support base well in advance. The unit is planning to hold a mega NRI meet in October end. The meet will connect those NRIs who have roots in Bihar.
Interestingly, the event is being planned solely by the Bihar unit of Overseas Friends of BJP (OFBJP) and the NDA government led by Chief Minister Nitish Kumar, of which the party is a part, is not at all involved. Of late, relationship between alliance partners BJP and Janata Dal United (JDU) have started souring and there is immense pressure from the state units to go alone in the Assembly elections. According to a source, the tentative dates for the mega event have been fixed at 30-31 October, as of now. “However, there may be little shifting of the dates because of the Chhath festival celebrations. A final decision regarding the dates will be taken next week,” the source said. Prime Minister Narendra Modi will be the star attraction of the event. As per the plan, about 500 NRIs of Bihar diaspora, settled in about 40 countries, are likely to be invited for the meet, which aims at connecting them to the BJP. “They are quite influential in their own way. We would love
“They may be separated by the state boundary, but people of Jharkhand are still attached to Bihar. When they are in other states or countries, people of Bihar and Jharkhand are like the extended family members,” the source said. Jharkhand, this is to be noted, was carved out of Bihar in 2000.