Bharatiya Janata Party national president Jagat Prakash Nadda will pay his first visit to Uttar Pradesh on January 20 after getting extension till 2024 Lok Sabha polls. He will kick-start party’s `Mission-2024’ by holding a mega rally in Ghazipur on January 20.
Nadda took over as the national president of the BJP on January 20, 2020. His three-year term will end on January 19 this year and on the day of his extension he will be in Ghazipur. Union Home Minister Amit Shah had announced extension of the term of Nadda for a year till Lok Sabha polls during the BJP’s national executive meeting in Delhi on Tuesday.
BJP sources said here on Tuesday that all preparations for making the rally a mega event has been done as the party president would start his second innings with a bang from Ghazipur.
The BJP has set a target of winning all the 80 Lok Sabha seats in Uttar Pradesh in the 2024 general elections. To achieve this goal, the party has especially focused on those 14 seats in the state it had lost in the last Lok Sabha polls. Among them, Ghazipur parliamentary seat is very important for the party.
Though Nadda’s visit to Ghazipur is part of the BJP’s campaign to regain its lost grounds, there is another reason for the party to choose this district to start its Lok Sabha campaign. Afzal Ansari of Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) had won the Ghazipur seat in 2019. Afzal is the elder brother of jailed mafia Mukhtar Ansari.
Sources said before addressing the public meeting in Ghazipur, Nadda would hold a meeting with BJP office-bearers and workers. Since a large number of residents of Ghazipur are in the Army, it is Nadda expected to interact with the soldiers and honour a few of them.
BJP state president Bhupendra Singh Chaudhary had gone to Ghazipur and given guidelines for the preparations in view of Nadda’s programme.