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UP BJP spreads PM’s message to garner support in panchayat polls

LUCKNOW: After PM Narendra Modi chose BJP’s 41st foundation day on Tuesday to mount a scathing attack on the opposition accusing it of peddling false narratives on issues like new farm laws and the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA), the UP BJP took the message down to rural precincts to blunt opposition’s aggression and consolidate its position in panchayat elections. “The PM’s message on key issues was percolated down to the grass roots,” UP BJP general secretary Govind Narayan Shukla told TOI after the PM’s address. BJP sources said the party used LED screens, computers and other devices to take the PM’s message to the people in over 2,700 locations across the state. These included 1,918 divisions, 98 organisational districts and nearly 700 strategic locations, many of them in politically volatile west UP region. A senior party leader said the PM’s message, which sought to corner the opposition on a host of issues related to farmers, poor and middle-class electorate, would benefit the party ahead of political showdown in the ensuing panchayat elections. “The foundation day has given party functionaries a chance to make an aggressive bid to take on political rivals in coming days,” said UP BJP vice-president and party’s panchayat election in charge Vijay Bahadur Pathak. On this occasion, the party dispatched booklets detailing its history and struggle of its leaders in the last 41 years. The booklet, titled ‘Itihas Vikas Ka…BJP ki Gaurav Gatha’ was also circulated among party functionaries through social media platforms which will be forwarded to party supporters. While the function organised in the state BJP headquarters was attended by Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath, state unit chief Swatantra Dev Singh and state general secretary (organisation) Sunil Bansal, the party asked public representatives, including MPs and MLAs, to actively participate in functions organised in their respective constituencies while following Covid-19 protocol. Party flags were also hoisted atop the houses of 1.63 lakh booth level presidents and district offices.

The Times of India

2021-04-07

Lucknow