LUCKNOW: BJP national president JP Nadda on Saturday kicked off the party’s ‘booth vijay abhiyan’ and virtually addressed office-bearers and party cadre at 27,700 shakti kendras. The campaign, which is aimed at winning all 1.6lakh booths in the state, also witnessed appointment of ‘panna pramukhs’. Nadda emphasised that the party needs to work harder at booths, where it has a weak presence.
Nadda highlighted the work done by PM Narendra Modi at the Centre and the Yogi government in UP and said Uttar Pradesh was on the road to development under their leadership. “UP has done exceedingly well in implementing 44 development schemes. Let BSP, SP and Congress have an open debate with our booth-level workers on development done by their regimes in 60 years and four years of Yogi government. Law and order has improved dramatically and criminals are fleeing the state. There is a huge dip in incidence of loot, dacoity and murder,” he said. “There was a time when it was impossible to chant Lord Ram’s name in the state with Congress openly refuting the existence of Ram. Now, after a wait of 500 years, construction of the temple at Ramjanmabhoomi is in progress because of PM’s efforts,” he said.
Kumbh in Prayagraj, Deepotsav in Ayodhya, Krishnotsav in Mathura, Dev Deepawali in Varanasi and expansion of Kashi Vishwanath temple and construction of Kailash Mansarovar Bhawan in Ghaziabad was possible only under Yogi , he added.
While chief minister Yogi Adityanath and deputy chief minister Keshav Prasad Maurya participated virtually from different locations in Prayagraj, deputy chief minister Dinesh Sharma logged in from Ghaziabad and Union minister Mahendra Nath Pandey from Ghazipur.
Nadda said, the CM has set a target of making UP a trillion-dollar economy and the state has already become the most preferred destination for investors. “Investments of more than Rs 3.5 lakh crore have taken place in UP and the state’s economy is worth Rs 22lakh crores,” he said.
“A Rs 5.1lakh-crore budget, biggest in the state’s history, was presented by the Yogi government and UP bagged second position in ease of doing business. The per capita income of UP is Rs 94,495 instead of Rs 47,116 earlier,” he said.
BJP workers committed to making campaign successful: UP BJP chief
UP BJP president Swatantra Dev Singh on Saturday said every party worker is committed to making the ‘Booth Vijay Abhiyan’ successful. He said the BJP was the only party which had hardworking and honest leaders. “Modi jiis working for the welfare of poor through schemes like PM Awas Yojana, Ayushman card for free treatment, free gas connection, toilets, bank accounts for the poor because he know what poverty means,” he said. “BJP workers support the slogans of Jai Shri Ram, Bharat Mata Ki Jaiand Vande Matram,” he said. Singh also attacked the opposition parties and said crime and exploitation were rampant during their regimes. He said party workers should visit every booth and make the best cadre panna pramukh.
