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| Edited By: DNA Web Team |Source: DNA webdesk |Updated: Sep 24, 2016, 07:00 PM IST
The Uri terror attack loomed large as the BJP National Executive met on Friday ahead of the two-day National Council meeting starting on Saturday amidst demands for tough action against Pakistan. The party itself sought to focus on the pro-poor agenda during the deliberations with BJP President Amit Shah asking its state governments to execute the schemes aimed at the welfare of the poor in the centenary birth anniversary year of its ideologue Deen Dayal Upadhyay. On the first day of the three-day exercise, in which Prime Minister Narendra Modi will participate from Saturday, Shah focused on the party's 'garib kalyan' agenda in his address to the office-bearers. Shah told the party's office-bearers at the meeting held in a scenic resort on the Malabar town's outskirts that Kozhikode was a "holy pilgrimage" centre for them as it was here that Upadhyay was elected as President of the Jana Sangh, the BJP's forerunner, in 1967.
