BJP president Amit Shah reviewed the preparation for Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s maha-Parivartan rally in lucknow January 2 which is touted by party men to be one of the biggest rallies of the country.
With an aim to gather around 10 lakh people in the rally, the BJP leaders are making all out efforts to make it historic. This is being done to blunt pposition charges of peoples’ annoyance with the BJP due to demonetisation. The PM is expected to announce some sops during his lucknow rally.
Earlier, the PM was slated to hold this rally on December 24, on the eve of the birthday of former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee. However, it was postponed to January 2 with an aim to launch the party’s poll campaign for Uttar Pradesh Assembly polls from that day.
BJP president Amit Shah who reached lucknow on Thursday afternoon for a day long visit, reviewed preparations for the rally and instructed that it be made a historic one.
State BJP general secretary Vijay Bahadur Pathak said that preparations were underway to make the rally a huge success. Members of all booth committees across the state would participate in the rally.
“There are over 1.47 lakh polling booths in UP and leaders have been asked to bring at least 6 members of each booth committee,” he said.
“The BJP leaders are also going to all the educational institutions including lucknow University and other colleges asking youths to join the rally,” Pathak said.
Meanwhile, the UP government has put elaborate security arrangements for the PM’s rally and deployed 20 companies of CRPF and 8 companies of PAC along with 5 SP rank, 10 ASP and 20 DSP rank officers for the purpose.