Amit Shah, JP Nadda to address rallies in Uttar Pradesh this month

LUCKNOW: BJP national president JP Nadda and home minister Amit Shah are scheduled to address rallies in Shrawasti and Bijnor on June 27 and 29, respectively as part of party’s 'Mahasampark Abhiyan', marking the completion of nine-year rule of Narendra Modi government at the Centre.
Incidentally, the BJP lost both Shrawasti and Bijnor to BSP’s Ram Shiromani Verma and Malook Nagar, respectively in the 2019 Lok Sabha elections.
As a matter of fact, the BJP has been organizing its rallies in parliamentary seats won by its leaders — Gautam Budh Nagar, Firozabad, Misrikh, Gonda, Lucknow, Bahraich, Etah, Kheri and Kaiserganj.
Sources said that the party's plan to organize rallies of Shah and Nadda during the ongoing campaign could potentially set the tone for the saffron campaign for the 2024 Lok Sabha elections.
UP BJP state general secretary, Sanjay Rai said that Nadda and Shah's rallies have been lined up but tentatively. "A final nod is expected from the party high command soon," he said, after a state-level meeting to assess the ongoing campaign. The meeting was chaired by UP BJP president Bhupendra Chaudhary and state general secretary (organization) Dharampal Singh.
BJP move to pitch Shah and Nadda in UP attains significance against the backdrop of Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav stepping up his party's campaign for the 2024 Lok Sabha polls. Akhilesh, in fact, has been resorting to aggressive positioning while accusing the BJP dispensation in UP for failing to curtail the law and order crisis. Rai said that the BJP has also been organizing social media dialogue, conventions for the socially enlightened class, trader conference, senior worker meeting, tiffin meetings. These are apart from the rallies which the BJP has been organizing in Lok Sabha constituencies of its MPs.
Choudhary said that the country has witnessed an all-round development with special emphasis on poor and deprived sections. He said that PM Modi changed the 'old pattern' and made the schemes of the government poor centric. "The leakage prevailing in the system was stopped and corruption was curbed. Today, the blessings and strong support of the people of the country is giving PM Modi the power to work continuously," he said.
He said once again the achievements of the Modi government have to be taken to the public through a mass contact relations campaign. "Public's involvement with the programs and the enthusiasm of the workers were telling signs that the BJP was poised to win all 80 Lok Sabha seats in UP," he said.