The state unit of Bhartiya Janata Party has decided to honour Defence minister Manohar Parrikar in lucknow on Thursday for successfully leading the Indian Army in carrying out surgical strikes at terror launch pads in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (PoK).
Parrikar - a Rajya Sabha member from UP, will pay a day-long visit to the statecapital where city BJP workers will accord a big reception.
BJP spokesperson Harish Srivastava said that Parrikar would arrive at Amausi airport around 2 pm on Thursday and thereafter attend a reception at a school auditorium in Gomti Nagar. There the senior BJP leader will also address party workers before returning to New Delhi in the evening.
Meanwhile, big hoardings have been put up in lucknow, thanking Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Manohar Parrikar for the surgical strikes across the line of Control.
The strikes were carried out by Indian Armed forces in the backdrop of September 18 terror attack on an Army brigade headquarter in Uri town of Jammu and Kashmir that left 19 Indian soldiers martyred.