HYDERABAD: Senior Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader M. Venkaiah Naidu said here on Saturday that a three-pronged strategy would be adopted to strengthen the party in southern and eastern India.

Giving details of the `chinthan baithak' of the party's national leaders at a press conference, Mr. Naidu said that strengthening of the organisational base, creating awareness among people about the party's ideology and organising people's movements would form part of the strategy.

Every village and ward would have party committees before elections, while its ideology on issues like Uniform Civil Code, abrogation of Article 370, opposing of appeasement of minorities, linking of rivers, opposing of religion-based reservations would be canvassed vigorously.

`Resurgence'

He said that the party's performance in the civic elections in Uttar Pradesh and Mumbai indicated its `resurgence' across the country. Elections in Punjab, Uttaranchal, Goa, Himachal Pradesh and Uttar Pradesh would be the first test for the two-and-a-half-year-old United Progressive Alliance Government.

To a query on whether the BJP would support the demands for separate Uttarandhra and Rayalaseema, Mr. Naidu clarified that his party was in favour of "bifurcation of the State into Telangana and Andhra." Demanding early separation of Telangana, he told the Government "Don't try to push it under the carpet."

Third front

Deriding the attempts of TDP president N. Chandrababu Naidu to revive the third front, he said: "We wish him all the best. But his move will end up as a mirage."

Taking potshots at the State Government, he sought to know what had it done to increase power production in the State.

Though the BJP, in principle, supported the promotion of special economic zones, he found fault with the Governments for acquisition of lakhs of acres of agricultural land.

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