BJP’s national president Amit Shah will be on a day’s visit o Uttar Pradesh where he will either inaugurate or lay foundation of development schemes as well as address rallies in Amethi and Sitapur.
All eyes will be on his visit to Amethi – the parliamentary constituency of Congress national vice-president Rahul Gandhi. The Congress leader had visited his parliamentary constituency last week.
“Shah’s visit to Amethi will speed up development there as he is set to lay foundation stones of various development schemes. These region has been Congress bastion but is lagging on all fronts,” BJP state genral secretary Vijay Bahadur Pathak said.
Shah will be accompanied by Textile Minister Smriti Irani who had unsuccessfully contested last general election from Amethi.
Shah will lay foundation stone for construction of a ‘bandh’ at Pipri village. Smriti Irani had promised this bandh when she had contested election in 2014. Among other projects scheduled to be inaugurated are an FM station, land for which was given by the state government on lease, three ITIs at Jagdishpur, Gauriganj and Tiloi, two Krishi Vigyan Kendras and a Sainik school.
He will also address a rally in Gauriganj. Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath will also attend that rally.
At around 1 pm Shah will leave for Sitapur where he will lay the foundation stones for construction of 51 offices during a religious function there. Shah will perform ‘bhoomi pujan’ for the Sitapur office and lay the foundation for 50 offices in other districts. These foundation stones will be carried to different districts, Pathak said.
He will also address a rally in Sitapur.
At around 4 pm he will reach lucknow and at 5 pm Shah will unveil books on five former chiefs of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) including KB Hedgewar, MS Golwalkar, also known as Guruji, Rajendra Singh alias Rajju Bhaiya, Bala Saheb Deoras and K S Sudarshan.