BJP national president Amit Shah will lead the party’s much-hyped ‘Tiranga Yatra’ at Kakori on August 13 while other senior leader will participate in functions to be held at various other places across the state.
The party will take out the Yatra in two phases – from August 9 to 14 and fromAugust 16 to 23 in which senior leader, MPs, MlAs and party worker have been asked to participate.
State BJP general secretary Vijay Bahadur Pathak said that the party’s national president will hold a meeting at Kakori Shaheed Smarak onAugust 13.
“Union Home minister Rajnath Singh will leader the yatra in Shahajahanpur – the birth place of Ashfaq Ulla Khan, Ram Prasad Bismil and Roshan Singh. The date of this yatra would be decided later”, he said.
Other Union minister will also be part of the Tiranga Yatra. Union Minister like Nitin Gadkari will lead Yatra in Mughalsarai, Uma Bharati in Jhansi, Ram Vilas Paswan in Akbarpur, JP Nadda in lucknow, Chaudhry Virendra Singh in Pratapgarh, Prakash Javdekar in Gorakhpur, Dharmendra Pradhan in Agra, Piyush Goyal in Mathura, Ram Kripal Yadav in Bijnore, Kiran Rijju in Kanpur, Col Raj Vardhan Singh Rathore in Meerut and Anupriya Patel in Faizabad.
Pathak said that the party will hold protests across the state on August 11 in support of the minor daughter and wife of expelled BJP leader Daya Shankar Singh.rural people,” Yadav said.