Stage is all set for the grand Vijay Shankhnad Rally to be held on Saturday at the Buddha Park where Gujarat Chief Minister and BJP’s Prime Ministerial candidate Narendra Modi will address to the people of Kanpur.
The entire route from Rawatpur to the rally site, Kalyanpur including Indira Nagar has been decorated with party flags, festoons, hoardings, banners, posters and cutouts. BJP president Rajnath Singh and former UP Chief Minister Kalyan Singh will also be present on the stage along with Modi. However, the local leaders will be accommodated on a separate dais.
BJP leader Bal Chandra Mishra said that there would be six entry points which would be under the watchful eyes of the security forces. He said as per the Friday decision, gates number one and three would be for VIP guests and senior citizens. He said gate number two was meant for women and people coming from Kannauj and Farrukhabad would enter into the pandal from gate number four. The entry of youths will be separate and they have been provided special seats at the venue.
He said Modi would land at Chakeri Airport from where he would leave for Chhatrapati Shahuji Maharaj University, Kanpur, and his helicopter would land at the university helipad. He would then proceed to the rally site in a convoy which was exactly adjacent to the helipad, he said. Modi will be reaching the rally site at around 3 pm and will remain at the venue till 5 pm. He will then leave for the helipad and then take off from the Chakeri airport to Gujarat.
The BJP leaders have made special arrangements for the Muslims, especially women, and they will be accommodated in a special enclosure which will exactly be in front of the main pandal from where Modi will address the rally. The official spokesperson for the women’s wing, Kamlawati Singh said that they were expecting the participation of at least 10,000 Muslim women and men in the rally from the city.
Meanwhile, prominent leaders of the BJP moved all over the city and carried out a mass contact programme where they focused on youth and traders’ community. The women cell was also actively involved in appealing to the women to reach the rally site on Saturday. Similarly, the Intellectual Cell of the BJP moved all over the univerisites, IIT-K and other universities in Kanpur interacting with the masses and the faculty at the university appealing to them to ensure they reach in large numbers to hear what was Modi’s plan for India’s revival. Dr Manoj Mishra said the youth would be around 1 lakh at the rally site.
Diwakar Mishra, along with his team, moved all over the prominent colleges of the city appealing to faculty to ensure they reach the venue to hear Modi’s address. He said the response of the faculty specially professors was good and they were highly eager to hear Modi. He further said that keeping in mind the power crisis in the city, the organisers had made arrangement of massive gen-sets which would ensure uninterrupted power supply in case of any power failure. He said a special IT control room had been set up which would be manned by around 200 computer experts to ensure they provide every bit of details of the rally and the latest feedback.
Meanwhile, massive police force, fire tender and district officials carried out a mock drill to supervise the security forces and how they would be entering, taking positions and ensure they maintain a strict vigil on mischief mongers.