New Delhi : The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is planning four “Parivartan Yatras” (March for change) in Uttar Pradesh next month to counter the effect of the ongoing Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi’s 20-day long Kisan Yatra.
The 10-day long yatras will start from east, west, north and south in Uttar Pradesh and culminate into a big rally in Lucknow to be addressed by Prime Minister Narendra Modi. The party has specially chosen the period between Dushehra and Diwali to take advantage of the festive atmosphere. Party president Amit Shah will join these yatras at various points.
Expecting Chief minister Akhilesh Yadav advancing the elections to January, the BJP planned the Yatras to raise its campaign decibel many folds in October after working out the election campaign strategy in the National Council meeting to be held in Kozhikode in Kerala from September 23 to 25.
The theme of the yatras is the same old call for “Parivartan,” a change from the misrule of Samajwadi Party and Bahujan Samaj Party past two and a half decades since the Kalyan Singh-led BJP government was dismissed in the state after the Babri Mosque demolition, that was adopted during a series of public rallies in the state two months ago.
Welfare of the poor will be focused during the rallies even while trying to achieve a social polarisation. Two similar “Parivartan Yatras” are also planned in the Congress-ruled Uttarakhand, though these will be after Diwali since only recently the party has concluded the rallies for ‘Pardafash’ (exposure) of how the Congress re-captured power by expelling all dissenters from the Assembly.
