In run-up to the 2019 Lok Sabha elections, the BJP will hold its two-day national council meeting beginning January 11 in the national capital, which would be attended by all ranks and files of BJP and its elected representatives, party leaders said on Saturday.

External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj's husband Swaraj Kaushal on Tuesday welcomed her decision not to contest the 2019 Lok Sabha elections.

The BJP on Monday said it will run a countrywide campaign to implement the National Register of Citizens if the party is voted back to power in 2019, adding the party will identify and send back the infiltrators.

The BJP will contest 25 of the 40 Lok Sabha seats in Bihar in the 2019 Lok Sabha elections and leave the rest for its allies including the JD-U, the LJP and RLSP, a party leader said on Monday.