Price-rise, internal security to dominate BJP Council meet

Spiralling prices of food items, internal security, Naxal problems will be among the issues discussed at the BJP's National Council meeting beginning on February 17 in tents here.

"The issue of price rise, internal security and Naxal problems, among other things, will be discussed at the party's three-day long national council meet," BJP general secretary and Madhya Pradesh in-charge Ananth Kumar said.

He said issues related to neighbouring countries - Pakistan and China will also be discussed at the meeting. 

The blueprint of programmes for uplift of poor will be prepared at the meeting which will be attended by around 5,000 delegates, Kumar said adding this was the first time in the party's history that such huge number of delegates will gather at National Council meeting.

Meanwhile, when asked asked whether the Ram Temple issue will be discussed at the meeting to be held in around 1000
tents spread over an area of 50 acres at Kushabhau Thakre
Township, BJP vice president, Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi, "all the
major issues of country will be discussed."

"The construction of Ram Temple is a national issue and not a political thing for us," BJP secretary Prabhat Jha said. 

"If the Congress doesn't want to build a Ram Temple at Ayodhaya it should clarify its stand on what it wants to construct instead of it?," he added.