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BJP to celebrate Deen Dayal Upadhaya's birth anniversary in big way

PNS

Enthused with the landslide victory in Uttar Pradesh Assembly elections, the BJP has drawn up an elaborate programme to celebrate the centenary birth anniversary of party’s ideologue Deen Dayal Upadhaya in a big way.

The first programme would span over a fortnight from May 10 to 25 in which around 20,000 dedicated workers would camp in 13,000 sectors in the state to highlight the ideology of party. They will also popularize the programmes of the Central and state governments.

The party has also constituted an eleven-member Deen Dayal Upadhaya Janam Shatabdi committee which includes state BJP chief and Deputy Chief Minister Keshav Prasad Maurya, ministers Rampati  Shastri, Sunil Bansal and two general secretaries Vijay Bahadur Pathak and Ashok Katiyar.

There is also a sub-committee of six members, headed by Vijay Bahadur Pathak to look into preparations for the programme starting from May 10.

Party spokesman Manish Shukla said that during the function, workers will go to all polling booths and hold mass contact drive and interact with the people to aware them about policies and schemes of the Centre and state governments.

On this occasion, the party will also carry out a plantation drive while the state government will hold ‘Garib Kalyan Mela’ for providing assistance to the poor.