Lucknow: The Executive Committee of BJP’s UP unit will meet in Moradabad for a two-day session on July 16-17 where it would strategize for the state assembly polls due early next year.

“An important meeting of senior leaders was held here today in which it has been decided to hold state executive meeting on July 16 and 17 in Moradabad,” BJP spokesman Vijay Bahadur Pathak said.

The meeting was chaired by state unit chief Keshav Prasad Maurya and was attended by several Union ministers besides party’s state-in-charge Om Prakash Mathur. Mahesh Sharma, Ramshankar Katheria, Sadhvi Niranjan Jyoti and Sajeev Balyan were among Union ministers who attended the meeting along with former presidents of BJP’s state unit. Pathak said the meeting decided to hold training camps for party workers at district level between July 20 and 30. Assembly segment-wise conferences will also be held in August, he said. –PTI