UP BJP MPs told to hit the ground running as Parliament session ends

The BJP on Thursday concluded its two-day meeting of MPs from UP with a resolve to ensure better coordination with the state government. The state goes to polls next year.

At the New Delhi meeting, BJP president JP Nadda instructed the MPs to take the message of the central and state governments to the people once the monsoon session of parliament ends, according to a leader who attended the meeting.

Besides Nadda and the MPs, the other attendees were UP CM Yogi Adityanath, UP BJP president Swatantra Dev Singh, UP’s BJP in-charge Radha Mohan Singh, and BJP state general secretary (organisation) Sunil Bansal.

The MPs have been asked to prepare a list of people who have benefited from central and state government schemes, and also to promote those schemes through videos on social media, the people cited earlier said. The MPs have also been asked to visit at least two ration shops every week in their constituency and ensure that free ration under the PM Gareeb Kalyan Scheme is distributed in packets which will carry the photos of the PM, the CM and the MP of the region.

“It was a routine meeting which happens regularly. For the past few months, it didn’t take place because of Covid,” Kanta Kardam, BJP Rajya Sabha MP from UP told ET. “We have been asked to overview the various government schemes and Covid vaccination programs in our respective areas.”