BJP national General secretary Varun Gandhi would be visiting Shravasti and Bharaich on Wednesday to meet the family members of former MlA Bhagwati Prasad to condole his death and will give them a cheque of Rs one lakh.
According to communique from Gandhi's office in New Delhi, he will visit the native place of Bhagwati Prasad, who died early this month after a prolonged illness. BJP state president laxmikant Bajpai would accompany Gandhi.
In a statement here Varun Gandhi said that it is unfortunate that family members of the former legislator had to face problem to complete his last rites. Due to acute paucity of money, the family members could not give required treatment to the ailing ex-MlA and he had to spend over an hour on the floor of the emergency section of the Bahriach district hospital due to rush of patients.
Gandhi will reach Bahriach from New Delhi on a chartered flight and will go to Madara village of Bhagwati Prasad to meet the family members. Gandhi will give Rs one lakh to the family members of the former MlA. Prasad was a two-time MlA from Ikauna constituency, which now falls in Shravasti district, from the Bharatiya Jana Sangh Party in 1967-69 and 1969-74. later the BJP general secretary will also visit a family of Harishchandra Gupta in Bahriach to condole the death of his mother recently before returning back to New Delhi in the evening.