Thursday will be an important day for political parties in Uttar Pradesh as senior political leaders, including Union Home Minister Amit Shah, Congress general secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra and Samajwadi Party president Akhilesh Yadav would be participating in different political programmes in the state in the run up to the 2022 assembly polls.
According to reports, Amit Shah and UP Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath will be in Saharanpur while Priyanka Gandhi Vadra will be in Moradabad to address a Pratigya Rally. Similarly, Akhilesh Yadav will be in Lalitpur on his Samajwadi Vijay Rath programme.
Bharatiya Janata Party media incharge Manish Dixit said here on Wednesday that Shah would lay the foundation stone of Maa Shakumbhari University in Saharanpur along with Yogi Adityanath.
The new state university will be constructed on 50.43 acre land at a cost of Rs 92 crore.
UP Deputy Chief Minister Dinesh Sharma, state ministers Surya Pratap Shahi, Suresh Kumar Khanna and others would be present there.
As per the programme, Shah will reach Maa Shakumbhari Devi University construction site at around 1300 hours and will stay there till 1445 hours.
On the other hand, Congress general secretary and incharge of Uttar Pradesh, Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, will address her party’s ‘Pratigya Rally’ at Buddha Vihar grounds in Moradabad at 1300 hours on Thursday. UP Congress president Ajay Kumar Lallu is already camping in Moradabad to make the rally a success.
Meanwhile, SP president Akhilesh Yadav, who launched the next phase of his Vijay Rath Yatra from Banda in Bundelkhand and reached Mahoba on Wednesday will reach Lalitpur on Thursday where he would address a public rally.