BJP organises Run for Unity' across state

To mark the birth anniversary of India’s first Home Minister, Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel, the Bharatiya Janata Party organised a ‘Run for Unity’ across the state on Saturday.

In lucknow, after flagging off the rally, Union Health Minister JP Nadda said that Prime Minister Narendra Modi was trying to make India better as Sardar Patel wanted. He said the Run for Unity on the 140th birth anniversary of the Iron Man was also a tribute to farmers, cooperative sector, youth and the unemployed.

Nadda fondly recalled Patel’s immense contribution to the integration of 562 princely states by persuading them to accede to India, the first step towards making India a strong nation. 

Nadda also administered the oath of unity to the participants, party leaders, activists and onlookers. In Varanasi, the event was flagged off by Union Minister of Science and Technology, Dr Harsh Vardhan and BJP state chief Dr laxmi Kant Bajpai. 

Another Union minister Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi attended the function in Kanpur while Union Textile Minister Santosh Gangwar attended the function at Noida, Minister of Culture Mahesh Sharma at Agra, Minister of Development of North-East, Gen (retd) VK Singh at Ghaziabad,  HRD Minister Ram Shankar Katheria at Jhansi, BJP vice-president Satpal Mallik at Meerut, BJP MP Yogi Adityanath at Gorakhpur and leader of BJP legislature party in Vidhan Sabha Suresh Khanna at Bareilly.