Senior leaders of the State BJP are working overtime to make Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan's proposed Jan Ashirwad Yatra a huge success. They are conducting meetings and chalking out a detailed plan of the Yatra.
Chouhan is scheduled to begin his Yatra from Ujjain on July 22. leader of Opposition in the lok Sabha, Sushma Swaraj and national BJP general secretary in-charge of the State, Ananth Kumar would also take part in the Yatra. BJP president Rajnath Singh would be missing the Yatra as he is going abroad. Former Deputy Prime Minister lK Advani would also miss the Yatra.
Meanwhile, preparations for the Yatra have reached the last stages. To make the Yatra a big success, BJP national vice president Prabhat Jha, State president Narendra Singh Tomar and others are continuously holding meetings. Such a meeting was held in the State capital at the Chief Minister's residence, while another meeting was held at the party's State headquarters where senior leaders reviewed the ongoing preparations for the Yatra.
The Chief Minister was himself present at the meeting at his official residence. Besides, all office-bearers of the State election campaign committee were also present at the meeting that lasted for hours. At this meeting, details of the Yatra was finalised.
Jha is already touring different areas for making the Yatra a success, while Tomar would reach Ujjain on Saturday to take stock of the preparations. On July 21 he would address a party workers conclave in Ujjain. Convener of the Yatra, Nandkumar Singh Chouhan and Chetan Kashyap also conducted a meeting of party workers in Shajapur and Shujalpur on Friday.
Keeping in view the Naxalite attack on the Congress Yatra in neighboring Chhattisgarh, intelligence agencies are fully alert and high security high security has been planned for the Chief Minister's Yatra.