Chief Minister Mayawati will hold a series of meetings with her party MPs and MLAs on November 13, 14 and 15 to discus the strategy for the next Assembly elections due in 2012. The CM will meet her MLAs at her official residence at 5, Kalidas Marg and collect feedback from them.

The meeting comes close on the heels of the BSP’s impressive performance in the recent bypolls, in which it cornered nine of the 11 seats where polls were held. A BSP source said Mayawati might congratulate her MLAs many of whom were asked to camp in different Assembly constituencies where bypolls were held and discuss change of constituencies in the wake of delimitations. “After delimitations, many MLAs want to change their constituencies. Mayawati would ask about their choices,” he said.

BSP insiders said Mayawati has now decided to focus on her own state in the second half of her rule. “She wants to further strengthen the party at the ground level and her priority is to ensure proper coordination between the party MLAs and the party’s district units,” a party MLA said. BSP MLAs said she is also concerned about the rising graph of the Congress in the state and might unfold a strategy to counter this. “She is concerned about her Dalit vote bank and could tell us to take special care for them,” an MLA said.