Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath, on Sunday, asked Bharatiya Janata Party workers to start preparations for the 2024 Lok Sabha polls and move forward with the target of winning 75 out of the state's 80 seats.

In 2019, the BJP had won 62 Lok Sabha seats in Uttar Pradesh while its ally Apna Dal (Sonelal) had emerged victorious in two constituencies.

"We have to prepare the ground for the 2024 Lok Sabha elections from now. We should move ahead with the target of winning 75 seats," Yogi Adityanath said at the BJP's one-day state executive meeting in Lucknow on Sunday.

This was the first state executive meeting of the BJP after the assembly polls in Uttar Pradesh concluded in March 2022.

"With the help of people and by dint of our hard work during COVID-19 pandemic, we got better results in the assembly polls,” he said.

“In the 2024 general elections, under the leadership of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, we have to march ahead with the target of winning 75 seats in Uttar Pradesh," Yogi said.

Congratulating Modi for completing eight years as prime minister, Yogi Adityanath said with the 2024 roadmap, the BJP would succeed in achieving its target.

Earlier, addressing the meeting, BJP state president Swatantra Dev Singh congratulated Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Union Home Minister Amit Shah, BJP president JP Nadda and senior party leaders and people of the state for the party's victory in the assembly polls.

The BJP is organising a massive public outreach campaign to mark the eighth anniversary of the Modi government, from May 30 to June 14. The series of events will begin with Modi releasing the benefits under the PM Cares for Children scheme on May 30. During the event, which coincides with the oath-taking of the second term of the BJP government at the Centre, the prime minister will hand over cheques for the children orphaned during the COVID-19 pandemic, according to BJP national general secretary Arun Singh.

The prime minister will also announce scholarships for them, he added.

Meanwhile, Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on Sunday paid floral tributes to former Prime Minister Chaudhary Charan Singh on his death anniversary in Lucknow.

“I pay my heartfelt tributes to Chaudhary Saheb. He always worked for rural uplift and welfare of farmers,” Yogi Adityanath told media persons in Lucknow.

“Chaudhary Charan Singh believed that the country’s path to development is through the streets of villages and farms,” he added.

Chaudhary Charan Singh was a farmers’ leader who played a key role in improving the lives of farmers by advocating and passing different bills for agricultural reforms.

Born in Uttar Pradesh’s Noorpur, Chaudhary Charan Singh served as the fifth prime minister of India from July 28, 1979 to January 14, 1980. His efforts towards bettering the lives of farmers in the country won him the title of ‘Champion of India’s peasants’. He was born on December 23, 1902 and died on May 29, 1987 at the age of 84.India observes National Farmers’ Day or Kisan Diwas on December 23 every year, commemorating his contributions towards the uplift of farmers in the country.