BJP Kerala unit starts talks to overhaul district committees based on population ahead of local body, Assembly polls in State

Kerala BJP plans district committee restructuring based on population count for 2025 local body and 2026 Assembly elections.

The Kerala unit of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has initiated a discussion on re-structuring its district committees based on the region-wise population count.

A proposal to form nearly 31 district committees was discussed at the core committee meeting of the party held here on Monday (December 9, 2024). The move is part of the pattern followed at the party national organisational level, where a region having around 8 to 10 lakh population is considered as a district, according to senior party leaders.

The re-structuring plan is aimed at strengthening the party ahead of the local body elections in 2025 and the Kerala Assembly elections in 2026. Each district committee will have an executive committee led by a president. There may be around three such committees each in at least a few districts based on the population count, they said.

The core committee also decided to step up its outreach to the Christian community ahead of the Assembly elections in 2026. The attempt will be to win the confidence of Church leaders and communities, especially based on the party inference that a sizeable chunk of the Christian community had voted in favour of its candidate Suresh Gopi in the Thrissur Lok Sabha constituency in the 2024 General Elections.

The core committee did not go in detail on the party’s setback in the recent bypoll held in Palakkad Assembly constituency, though the grassroots-level analysis at the district level will continue as decided earlier.