Lucknow, Jul 2: The Bharatiya Janata Party State Working Committee meeting is scheduled to be held on July 7.

The meeting is likely to be attended by senior party leaders including Defence Minister Rajnath Singh. BJP national president JP Nadda is likely to inaugurate the day-long event.

BJP sources here Today said political resolutions are expected to be passed in this meeting. In view of the ongoing Corona pandemic, the meeting will be held virtually and the working committee members will connect from their respective districts.

A roadmap will be prepared for the 2022 state Assembly elections to be held in UP after a few months.

The meeting is being held after the visit of National General Secretary Organization BL Santosh and UP in-charge Radha Mohan Singh to Lucknow. There were several rounds of meetings during the stay of BL Santosh and Radha Mohan Singh in Lucknow. After which many expansions were made at organization level including appointment of former IAS AK Sharma as the state vice-president of BJP in Uttar Pradesh, apart from this, new faces have been given a chance in many posts. Archana Mishra and Amit Balmiki have also been made state ministers.

The UP BJP Chief also made some key appointments including that of Pranshudutt Dwivedi (Farrukhabad) to BJP Yuva Morcha, Rajya Sabha MP Geetashakya (Auraiya) to Mahila Morcha, Kameshwar Singh (Gorakhpur) to Kisan Morcha, Narendra Kashyap, former MP (Ghaziabad) to Backward Classes Front, MP Kaushal Kishor to Scheduled Castes Front, Sanjay Gond (Gorakhpur) at Scheduled Tribe Morcha and Kunwar Basit Ali (Meerut) as State President of Minority Morcha.

Earlier in March, the one-day meeting of the Working Committee meeting was held in Lucknow, in which the Defence Minister had also participated.(UNI)