UP elections 2022: BJP postpones manifesto launch after Lata Mangeshkar's demise

Lucknow: The Bhartiya Janta Party (BJP) deferred release of its election manifest in Uttar Pradesh after the demise of world famous singer Lata Mangeshkar on Sunday.

The party said that due to the demise of Bharat Ratn Lata Mangeshkar it has decided not release poll manifesto for UP. The party had organized a gala ceremony at UP headquarter on Sunday to release the manifesto. The union home minister Amit Shah, UP Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath and several other senior leaders were to release the poll manifesto. While Shah had arrived in Lucknow on Sunday morning, he reached at the party office to pay homage to late singer Lata Mangeshkar.

The state BJP office-bearers said that the poll manifesto would now be released after the state mourning is over. The state government has announced two days mourning on the death of Lata Mangeshkar and cancelled all the important programmes.

However, the campaigning tours and public meetings of the leaders of BJP and other political parties continued on Sunday. While UP CM Yogi addressed public meetings in Aligarh on Sunday, the Prime Minister Narendra Modi would attend a poll rally in Bijnore on Monday. Samajwadi Party Chief Akhilesh Yadav addressed election meetings in Agra on Sunday.