Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) state president Narendra Singh Tomar announced the schedule of first round of Jan-Ashirvad Yatra of Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan here on Tuesday.
Tomar said leader of Opposition in lok Sabha Sushma Swaraj and BJP state in-charge Anant Kumar will accompany the Chief Minister on the yatra which is scheduled to begin from Ujjain on July 22.
The Chief Minister is likely to travel 8,000 km in 50 days during the yatra which will pass across 224 Assembly constituencies of the State. Tomar said that Shivraj Singh Chouhan has embarked on the yatra to convince the people for giving him another term as Chief Minister.
The saffron leader said during this period, party workers will collect donations from common people which will be used for fighting the Assembly elections. The money collected in different constituencies will be presented to the Chief Minister during the ‘Karyakarta Mahakumbh’ to be held in Bhopal on September 25marking the culmination of the yatra.
In the first stage of the yatra, the party leaders will cover Ujjain and Ratlam. In the second stage that will begin on July 28 the yatra will pass through Sidhi and Singrauli. The third stage of the yatra will begin on July 31.
Meanwhile, BJP state in-charge Anant Kumar held meetings with senior party leaders in the State capital on Tuesday. He has directed party state spokespersons and Ministers in the Government to take aggressive stand against the Congress. He also advised that detailed information of all the scams and cases of corruption related to Congress leaders must be compiled by the party for propaganda.
Industries Minister Kailash Vijayvargiya and Vijendra Singh Sisodia have been entrusted with the task of maintaining coordination between the party spokespersons. Among the leaders with whom Anant held meetings are Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan, State president Narendra Singh Tomar, organisational secretary Arvind Menon and Anil Dave.