Amethi house touched up for Mrs Irani, Alok Dhaba to serve as war room for BJP

  • | Sunday | 24th March, 2019

These include setting up embankment for Pipdi dam from flooding, distribution of vegetable seeds and a CT scan centre,” says BJP Amethi president Durgesh Tripathi. The premises is likely to serve as the accommodation for Irani during her stay in Amethi for the high-decibel 2019 election campaign. We will ensure Didi's win just by seeing her commitment to fight again," says Gyan Pratap Singh, owner of Alok Dhaba, which serves as the meeting point for BJP workers. "There has been no candidate by any party who, despite defeat, has returned to Amethi. "My brother Rakesh Gupta, mother and I are eager to host Smritiji here.

In Rahul backyard, Smriti followers list her grants GAURIGANJ (AMETHI): In the heart of Gauriganj, tables have been neatly set at the bustling Alok Dhaba as BJP karyakartas begin making notes on Smriti Irani 's addresses and her stay in Amethi It's redux 2014: Congress president Rahul Gandhi versus BJP's Smriti Irani as her men dish out, over several cups of tea, a list of 48 development projects she undertook in the past five years.Nearly 100 metres away from the dhaba, a group of excited masons are at work at Jamo Block of Madhopur village to give finishing touches to a double-storied home-Krishna Mansion-which has had a fresh coat of white paint. The premises is likely to serve as the accommodation for Irani during her stay in Amethi for the high-decibel 2019 election campaign."My brother Rakesh Gupta, mother and I are eager to host Smritiji here. Amethi will come to life again. Our house is getting ready," says house owner Jitendra. "There has been no candidate by any party who, despite defeat, has returned to Amethi. We will ensure Didi's win just by seeing her commitment to fight again," says Gyan Pratap Singh, owner of Alok Dhaba, which serves as the meeting point for BJP workers. Singh's son Alok, along with a team of cooks and neighbours, brings out framed photographs from 2014, showing how Irani would spend time meeting workers, block presidents, district office bearers and voters over "chili paneer and missi roti."Amethi BJP spokesperson Govind Singh Chauhan even belts out names of previous candidates who never returned after contesting from Amethi—Kanshi Ram, Sharad Yadav, Bhim Singh (Panther Party J&K) and Rajmohan Gandhi.While the Congress continues to accuse the BJP of halting UPA projects like the food park, Amethi residents and Irani’s supporters have a long list of her contribution: Urea and DAP racks, reservation counter at Amethi railway station, Uthretia to Varanasi rail electrification via Amethi, link road between Amethi and Rae Bareli to National Highway and a Sainik School.“Didi even brought Krishi Vigyan Kendra and a Rs 3-crore soil testing lab besides rescuing families in Bareli with relief packages after a fire,” says Mahendra Pratap, a wheat farmer.There are women who flash a smile, sporting a veil, as they share joys from having received 10,000-odd saris as gifts from Irani and Wi-Fi facility for helping devotees at Shahgarh and Kaligan Dham temples.“She has beaten Amethi MP Rahul Gandhi in a number of visits to fix issues concerning people. These include setting up embankment for Pipdi dam from flooding, distribution of vegetable seeds and a CT scan centre,” says BJP Amethi president Durgesh Tripathi.

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