The state unit of Bharatiya Janata Party is gearing up for the proposed kisan rally of Prime Minister Narendra Modi in Shahajahanpur on July 21. To take stock of the preparatyion Chief Minister yogi Adityanath and BJP state president Dr Mahendra Nath Pandey will visit Shahajahanpur on Tuesday.
In the proposed rally, the PM will address the farmers’ problems and highlight the Centre’s move to hike the MSP of the Kharif crops.
BJP state president Dr Pandey said that after BJP came to power the pro-farmer policies have started taking shape because the BJP is of the firm belief that a nation can progress only if the farmers are happy. “Working on this principle the Modi government has taken up the challenge to double farmers’ income and is working in this direction,” he said.
This will be the fifth rally of PM in last three weeks. PM had addressed his first rally in Sant Kabir Nagar in the end of June and attended three back to back rallies in Azamgarh, his parliamentary constituency Varanasi and in Mirzapur on July 14-15.
Now all eyes are on the PM’s next big rally in Shahjahanpur which has been named as ‘’Annadata rally” where farmers of the adjoining districts like lakhimpur Kheri, Hardoi, Pilibhit, Bareilly, Sitapur and Badaun will take part.
The party is expecting a crowd of around 3 lakh farmers in this rally.
BJP general secretary Vijay Bahadur Pathak said here on Monday that the Centre has done a lot for the farmers during its four-year regime and the hike in the MSP on Kharif crop is unprecedented.
“Hike of Rs 200 per quintal on paddy and rise in the MSP of other crop to a maximum of Rs 1,800 per quintal itself proves the commitment of the BJP towards farmers ,” he said.
Shahjahanpur is only of the rich agriculture production district of UP which tops in wheat and sugarcane cultivation. However, the region is among the weakest area of the BJP though in 2014 the party won in the lok Sabha polls.
Dominated by Dalits and backwards, Shahjahanpur area is the main focus ground for the BJP as strengthening of the party in this area would automatically boost the party’s fortune in the nearby areas of lakhimpur Kheri, Hardoi, Sitapur and Bareilly.
Presently, Krishna Raj, the BJP MP from Shahjahanpur is a minister of state in the Union government.