Taking the first ceremonial step towards starting its campaign for the Lok Sabha elections, the Bharatiya Janata Party organised bhoomi pujan on Parade Ground where the party’s national president Amit Shah will be addressing thousands of party workers in Trishaktri Sammelan on Saturday.
About 17,000 party workers from the Tehri and Haridwar Lok Sabha constituencies are to attend the Trishakti Sammelan here.
Talking to media persons after the ceremony, the BJP State president Ajay Bhatt said that as per its tradition, the party starts important initiatives with such ceremonies as per the Sanatan Dharm.
He further informed that after addressing party workers in the Trishakti Sammelan, the BJP national president would hold meetings with the chief minister, Lok Sabha election committee, ministers, MLAs and state office bearers of the party to discuss the plan for future programmes of the party. The aim of the BJP is to win all the five Lok Sabha seats in Uttarakhand to achieve a second term for the BJP government under prime minister Narendra Modi at the centre, added Bhatt. According to the BJP State media in-charge Devendra Bhasin, apart from the Trishakti Sammelan to be addressed by the party’s national president in Dehradun, the Uttar Pradesh chief minister Yogi Adityanath will be addressing the Trishakti Sammelan for Nainital parliamentary constituency in Haldwani on February 9.
Union minister of State for External Affairs VK Singh will be addressing the Trishakti Sammelan for Almora constituency while Uttar Pradesh deputy chief minister Dinesh Sharma will address the Trishakti Sammelan for Garhwal constituency.
The dates for these events for Almora and Garhwal constituencies are not finalised yet though they will be held before February 10.
Apart from Bhatt, the minister of State for Higher Education, Dhan Singh Rawat, BJP state general secretary Jyoti Gairola, general secretary Naresh Bansal, general secretary and MLA Khajan Das, MLAs Harbahs Kapur, Ganesh Joshi, Umesh Sharma and Dehradun mayor Sunil Uniyal ‘Gama’ along with office bearers and party workers were also present during the bhoomi pujan.
