NE NEWS SERVICE
NEW DELHI, NOV 12
Ahead of the Uttar Pradesh assembly elections, Union Home Minister Amit Shah will arrive in Varanasi today, November 12 for a two-day visit. During the visit, Shah will tour eastern Uttar Pradesh. The home minister will also hold an important organisational meeting to discuss the party’s election strategy and preparedness with BJP leaders ahead of the polls.
Amit Shah, who will be on a two-day visit to poll-bound Uttar Pradesh will visit Deendayal Hastkala Sankul (Trade Centre and Museum) in Varanasi on Friday. Shah will conduct a meeting on the party’s election strategy and preparedness for the UP polls scheduled to be held early next year. According to the BJP, Union Minister Dharmendra Pradhan and Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath will also be present in the meeting.
Meanwhile, Shah will also attend the Akhil Bharatiya Rajbhasha Sammelan (National Official Language Programme) in Varanasi during the trip. Apart from Varanasi, Shah will also visit Azamgarh, Gorakhpur and Basti. In Basti, the home minister will inaugurate Sansad Khel Mahakumbh at Amar Shaheed Satyavaan Singh Sports Stadium on November 13. Following this trip, Shah is also expected to visit Lucknow on November 21. Earlier on October 29, HM Shah had visited Lucknow to flag off the mega BJP membership drive ahead of the UP polls.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi is all set to make multiple visits to poll-bound Uttar Pradesh this month to inaugurate multiple infrastructure projects. PM Modi will first visit the Sultanpur district of Uttar Pradesh on November 16 to inaugurate the Purvanchal Expressway, where he will be addressing a massive gathering. Following this, the Prime Minister will be in Greater Noida on November 25 to lay the foundation stone of the Jewar International Airport project in Noida. The Prime Minister’s back to back visits to the state comes as a major boost to the Bharatiya Janata Party ahead of the crucial assembly polls.