BJP intensifies preparations for PM’s conference on women

Preparations have intensified in Varanasi ahead of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s proposed visit to the city on April 28, with the BJP and its Mahila Morcha stepping up efforts.

BJP’s Kashi region president Dilip Patel said the party’s district and city units have planned a booth-level outreach campaign to make a proposed women’s conference during Modi’s visit historic. Patel said the prime minister will arrive in Varanasi on the afternoon of April 28 and inaugurate projects worth crores at the Banaras Locomotive Works.

He will then address the massive women’s conference and stay overnight in the city. On April 29, Modi will inaugurate the Rinpoche Sangpa Hospital and Medical College of the Central Institute of Higher Tibetan Studies and later, leave for Hardoi to inaugurate the Ganga Expressway.

Patel said since 2014, the prime minister has taken several historic steps to promote women’s empowerment, self-reliance and their participation in social and political spheres.

He appealed to women to participate in the upcoming event in large numbers, saying the conference would send a strong message of women’s empowerment across the country. To ensure the participation of more than 50,000 women, responsibilities have been assigned to senior leaders across all eight Assembly segments in this Uttar Pradesh district. According to the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), meetings at the mandal level have been completed and Mahila Morcha teams will now carry out a door-to-door outreach campaign to invite women to participate in the conference.

The BJP aims to make the event historic, with the organisation mobilising its full strength for the programme, Patel added.