Gearing up for the 2019 general elections, Bharatiya Janata Party is set to spruce up its organization with party president Amit Shah laying the foundation of 51 offices and inaugurating a series of programmes in Amethi on October 10.
State BJP general secretary Vijay Bahadur Pathak said that Shah will lay the foundation stones for construction of 51 offices during a religious function at Sitapur while a series of programmes will either be inaugurated or their foundation stones laid at Amethi.
Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath and state party president Dr Mahendra Pandey will also attend these programmes.
“Shah will perform bhoomi pujan for the Sitapur office and lay the foundation of 50 offices in other districts. These foundation stones will be carried to different districts. Shah is also likely to address a rally in Sitapur,” Pathak said.
Sitapur holds importance for the BJP as the party has four MPs from the egion. Previously, several programmes of PM Narendra Modi or party chief Amit Shah were planned but were cancelled in the last minute. Secondly, Naimisaranya is close to Sitapur and hence Shah probably thought of performing puja in the region.
In Amethi, Shah along with Textile minister Smriti Irani will lay the foundation stone of several projects which were earlier promised by Irani when she contested against Rahul Gandhi in 2014 general election. The main promise was the construction of a ‘bandh’ at Pipri village whose foundation stone will be laidd on October 10.
Among other projects scheduled to be inaugurated are an FM station, the 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.
Shah will also address a rally at Amethi which is likely to be attended by 2.5 lakh people. Two Deputy CMs Dinesh Sharma and Keshav Prasad Maurya were likely to attend the function.