A four-day programme beginning from October 25 will mark the inauguration of the party's new strategy to galvanise the organisation. ``Party president Kushabhau Thakre will inaugurate the four-day convention of select group of party activists,'' BJP spokesman Prakash Jawdekar said after the meeting addressed by senior party leader Pramod Mahajan and Deputy Chief Minister Gopinath Munde. The meeting was attended by the BJP ministers and office bearers held at Sahaydri Guest House in South Mumbai

Significantly, state uniit president and MP Suryabhan Wahadane was not present.

The party drive will be followed by party conventions at the regional, district and assembly constituency level to further strengthen the party for the next assembly elections.

``During theprogramme, it has also been decided to present a purse to Thakre. Though no target has been fixed, heads of the district units have been asked to collect a good amount. Similar purses were presented to Atal Behari Vajpayee, L K Advani and Murli Manohar Joshi when they were at the helm of affairs of the party,'' Jawdekar added.

Simultaneously, all the party ministers have also been given specific responsibility during the next 15 months. At the moment, most of the ministers are busy with the administration and government and as such, they are unable to devote much time for the party. ``Now we have given a specific programme to each cabinet member,'' Jawdekar said.

Though it was a routine meeting which is being held every three months, it assumed significance due to the recent differences between the Shiv Sena-BJP alliance over Sena chief Bal Thackeray's directive to the state government to provide free electricity to farmers.

However, Javdekar said that the issue was not discussed at the meeting. Itwould, however, come up in the joint co-ordination committee meeting of the two ruling partners scheduled for Thursday.