Yogi launches BJP campaign from Dalit home

  • | Wednesday | 13th February, 2019

UP BJP aims to reach out to 3 crore households to drum up support. LUCKNOW: UP chief minister Yogi Adityanath launched the 'Mera Parivar BJP Parivar' campaign in the state on Tuesday by unfurling the party flag at a house of a Dalit family in the state capital.In a counter to opposition's criticism of BJP and accusing it of being anti-Dalit, CM Yogi arrived at the house of Ram Narendra Deewan Valmiki, a supervisor in the Lucknow municipal corporation (LMC) in Daliganj at around 12 noon. Accompanied by a host of BJP workers, including mayor Sanyukta Bhatia and former party MLA Suresh Tewari, Yogi met the Valmiki family and then went to the terrace and unfurled BJP flag.Valmiki's son Abhishek, a law student and a BJP booth president, told TOI that it was a great honour for the family to host the CM who has been working for all sections of society. "My family has a long association with Bharatiya Jana Sangh," said Abhishek, whose uncle Ram Prasad Valmiki has been chairman of Safai Mazdoor Karamchari Sangh.Political experts see CM Yogi's choice of launching the party campaign from a Dalit household as a move to woo non-Jatav Dalits.BJP's nationwide campaign seeks to reach out to families that are beneficiaries of various government schemes including Ujjawala, provisioning free gas connection to rural households and Saubhagya, providing free electricity connections.

LUCKNOW: UP chief minister Yogi Adityanath launched the 'Mera Parivar BJP Parivar' campaign in the state on Tuesday by unfurling the party flag at a house of a Dalit family in the state capital.In a counter to opposition's criticism of BJP and accusing it of being anti-Dalit, CM Yogi arrived at the house of Ram Narendra Deewan Valmiki, a supervisor in the Lucknow municipal corporation (LMC) in Daliganj at around 12 noon. Accompanied by a host of BJP workers, including mayor Sanyukta Bhatia and former party MLA Suresh Tewari, Yogi met the Valmiki family and then went to the terrace and unfurled BJP flag.Valmiki's son Abhishek, a law student and a BJP booth president, told TOI that it was a great honour for the family to host the CM who has been working for all sections of society."My family has a long association with Bharatiya Jana Sangh," said Abhishek, whose uncle Ram Prasad Valmiki has been chairman of Safai Mazdoor Karamchari Sangh.Political experts see CM Yogi's choice of launching the party campaign from a Dalit household as a move to woo non-Jatav Dalits.BJP's nationwide campaign seeks to reach out to families that are beneficiaries of various government schemes including Ujjawala, provisioning free gas connection to rural households and Saubhagya, providing free electricity connections. UP BJP aims to reach out to 3 crore households to drum up support.

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