Vaishnav, Yadav take stock of Maha poll preparations

AFTER a drubbing in the Lok Sabha elections in Maharashtra, the BJP has appointed two Union ministers, Bhupesh Yadav and Ashwini Vaishnaw, incharge and co-in-charge of the party for the assembly elections due later this year.

- SUDHIR SURYAWANSHI

They met state party leaders who were reportedly informed about the leadership's displeasure with the performance of the state unit in the parliamentary polls.

A senior party leader said it was a "confidential meeting." "We were told that in the Lok Sabha elections, not only small party leaders failed, but big leaders too were unable to deliver. The participants of the meeting were told that if local leaders continued to perform the way they did in LS polls, then it will be difficult for the BJP to return to power in the state," said the party leader.