Bhartiya Janata Party president Amit Shah will lead the party’s much-hyped ‘Tiranga Yatra’ at Kakori on the fringes of the state capital on Saturday.
Shah will address a public programme ‘Azadi 70, Yaad Karo Kurbani’ at the Shaheed Smarak, Kakori and thereafter will have lunch at the residence of Dalit MP Kaushal Kishore.
The BJP president is also slated to visit the state party headquarters in lucknow here and meet the office bearers.
The state BJP has already decided to take out ‘Tiranga Yatra’ in two phases – from August 9 to 14 and from August 16 to 23 in which all senior leaders, MPs, MlA and party workers have been asked to participate.
State BJP general secretary Vijay Bahadur Pathak said that while Amit Shah will hold meeting at Kakori Shaheed Smarak tomorrow, Union Home minister Rajnath Singh will leader the yatra in Shahajahanpur – the birth place of Ashfaq Ulla Khan, Ram Prasad Bismil and Roshan Singh - the date of which will be decided later.
Other Union ministers will also be part of the Yatra. Union ministers like Nitin Gadkari will lead the Yatra in Mughalsarai, Uma Bharati in Jhansi, Ram Vilas Paswan in Akbarpur, JP Nadda in lucknow, Chaudhary Virendra Singh in Pratapgarh, Prakash Javdekar in Gorakhpur, Dharmendra Pradhan in Agra, Piyush Goyal in Mathura, Ram Kripal Yadav in Bijnore, Kiran Rijiju in Kanpur, Col Raj Vardhan Singh Rathore in Meerut and Anupriya Patel in Faizabad.