Smriti Irani in Amethi Live Updates: Union Minister Smriti Irani is visiting the Congress bastion Amethi in Uttar Pradesh today. BJP President Amit Shah is also scheduled to arrive at Rahul Gandhi’s Lok Sabha constituency on October 10. (PTI image)
Smriti Irani in Amethi Live Updates: Union Minister Smriti Irani is visiting the Congress bastion Amethi in Uttar Pradesh today. BJP President Amit Shah is also scheduled to arrive at Rahul Gandhi’s Lok Sabha constituency on October 10. Their visits will come days after the Congress Vice President had visited the area. Irani had fought the 2014 Lok Sabha Elections unsuccessfully from Amethi against Gandhi. BJP is looking to wrest it from the Congress to give a telling blow to the rival party in the 2019 Lok Sabha polls.
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1:55 PM: Meanwhile, former Uttar Pradesh minister Gayatri Prasad Prajapati’s wife Maharaji Devi had alleged on Sunday that the Congress had fielded a candidate from Amethi only to ensure her husband’s defeat in the Assembly polls held in the state earlier this year.
1:50 PM: The Union Cabinet Minister of Textiles and Information and Broadcasting is likely to attend the launch of a FM station at Gauriganj and an initiative to save Gomti river near Pipri village, statement issued by the district administration said.
1:45 pm: Party sources said the visit of the senior BJP leaders was aimed at sending a clear message that the current regime believed in all-round development of the state and was not meting out any “step-motherly treatment” to the areas where the BJP had failed to make a mark.
1:40 PM: The Congress vice president had during his visit here on October 5 accused the BJP governments at the Centre and in Uttar Pradesh of re-inaugurating the projects launched by the previous UPA regime in the district.
1:35 PM: Though Smriti Irani lost to the Congress vice president, she managed to reduce his victory margin from around 3.70 lakh in 2009 to 1.07 lakh in 2014.
1:30 PM: In the 2017 Uttar Pradesh Assembly election, the BJP won six of the 10 Assembly seats falling under the parliamentary constituencies of Amethi and Rae Bareli. Four of them were in Amethi.
1:25 PM: Amethi, which has traditionally been a Congress bastion, had in 2014 Lok Sabha elections witnessed a high-pitched electoral battle between Rahul Gandhi and Smriti Irani.
1:20 PM: On October 9, Irani will visit Steel Authority of India Ltd (SAIL) in Jagdishpur, statement issued by the district administration said.
1:15 PM: Smriti Irani is likely to attend the launch of a FM station at Gauriganj and an initiative to save Gomti river near Pipri village, statement issued by the district administration said.
1:10 PM: The Union minister will also attend the inauguration of a tuberculosis unit at the district hospital and a primary health centre at Odari Tiloi, and attend other public welfare programmes launched by the state and central government.
1:05 PM: Union Minister of Textiles and Information and Broadcasting Smriti Irani is scheduled to arrive here today, while BJP chief Amit Shah will visit on October 10, a statement issued by the district administration said.
1:00 PM: A number of schemes and projects are likely to be announced and their foundation stones laid at a function here on Tuesday to be attended by Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath. The beneficiaries of various schemes will be handed over certificates, the statement said.
