The BJP was the first party to be off the blocks with formation of its election management and campaign committee headed by Lal Krishna Advani. The committee today delayed its meeting today anticipating the announcement of the election schedule.

The 13-member committee went into a huddle this evening to chalk out its strategy for the September polls. Almost all members agreed that it would not be feasible to sustain the high-pitch campaign planned by the party till September, both physically and financially.

The meeting is learnt to have decided to continue a low-key campaign to sustain sympathy for Atal Behari Vajpayee for having lost by only one vote. It would therefore, continue holding small-level public meetings and rallies.

Earlier, party spokesman M. Venkaiah Naidu said there was a strong pro-Vajpayee wave blowing across theCountry along with an anti-Congress wave. In fact, this would penetrate deep into the rural areas by September and the Congress would repent for having suggested late elections.

The BJP had suggested election in June in the interest of the country and for convenience of the people, he said. However, the BJP will go by the decision of the Election Commission, which had announced that elections will be held between September and October, he said.

The Congress and the communists were scared of going to the polls early as they thought the people would punish them for destablising the nation's polity and economy, Naidu said. The BJP spokesman asserted that the Vajpayee Govt was fully empowered to take decisions as and when necessary. ``It is a full-fledged Government and not a care-taker one, as was being claimed by the Opposition'' he said.