New Delhi: Bharatiya Janata Party will manage all its election related activity from 11 Ashok Road for 2019 LokSabha elections. Lutyens’ Delhi bungalow housed the party’s headquarters for decades before it was shifted to a swanky, five-storied building on Deen Dayal Upadhyay Marg, central Delhi, in February.

“The war room will plan and execute the campaign for the next parliamentary election,” one of the two leaders said on condition of anonymity.

A third BJP leader said, asking not to be identified, that there is a feeling among some members of the party that the new HQ has not been lucky for it and that the war room for 2019 shouldn’t be located there.

After moving to the new building, the BJP lost the bypolls in Phulpur, Gorakhpur and Kairana in Uttar Pradesh; fell short of a majority in Karnataka; had to withdraw support to the alliance government in J&K; lost the Telugu Desam Party as an ally in Andhra Pradesh; and saw its relationship with Shiv Sena touch a new low.

The party has still not vacated its old HQ and because “we ran the party from there till very recently, the infrastructure already exists there to run a full scale war room for a national election,” the first person added.

Union minister Ananth Kumar’s bungalow in Tughlak Crescent was the BJP’s war room during LK Advani’s prime ministerial bid in 2009. A similar facility was set up at union minister Shripad Yesso Naik’s Lodhi Estate bungalow for Narendra Modi’s hugely successful prime ministerial campaign in 2014.