BJP president Amit Shah will inaugurate the party’s Maha-Jansampark Abhiyan (mass contact drive) from Indore in Madhya Pradesh on 6 October. The campaign, which will continue till 8 October, is aimed at reaching out to voters across the state where Assembly polls are due this year-end.
Shah will visit Indore and Ujjain divsions on 6 October, while he will visit Gwalior and Chambal divisions on 9 October. He will visit Sagar, Hoshangabad and Bhopal regions on 14 October and he will be present in Rewa, Shahdol and Jabalpur on 15 October.
The BJP chief will cover all 10 divisions of the state in four days and attend several public rallies and party workers meetings. “Amit Shah ji will begin his tour by visiting Rajmata Vijaya Raje Scindia’s mausoleum and Atal Ji’s parental home in Gwalior. He will address party workers in Palak-Sanyojak (guardian-convenor) meeting and youth conversation programme in Gwalior and hold a road show and public meeting in Guna and Shivpuri districts,” BJP national vice-president Prabhat Jha told The Statesman.
Shah will on Saturday address a workers meeting in Ujjain, a mega Scheduled Tribes meeting in Jhabua and a farmers meet in Jawara of Ratlam district,” Jha added. The idea is to tell people what the BJP has done for the state’s development, he said.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Shah had kicked off the Madhya Pradesh election campaign with a party workers convention (Karyakarta Mahakumbh) on 26 September on Deendayal Upadhyay’s birth anniversary at Jamboori Maidan Bhopal. State BJP claimed around 8 lakhs party workers and office-bearers had gathered for the event and it has been entered in the World Book of Records (WBR).