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PM to launch BJP`s poll campaign
Ayodhya, Feb 07: Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee will kick-off the high profile poll campaign of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in Uttar Pradesh from here today, a day after the dissolution of the 13th Lok Sabha.
Ayodhya, Feb 07: Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee will kick-off the high profile poll campaign of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in Uttar Pradesh from here today, a day after the dissolution of the 13th Lok Sabha.
During his day-long visit to Faizabad district, Mr Vajpayee will address two public meetings and would travel on the special luxurious Presidential saloon after inaugurating a railway bridge on Saryu river.
For the BJP, it would be a memorable event with former UP Chief Minister Kalyan Singh sharing the dais with the Prime Minister for the first time in the district. Sources said BJP leaders were leaving no stone unturned to make the public rally a grand success. when the two stand together after a gap of four years.
According to official sources, Mr Vajpayee will reach his Parliamentary constitutency Lucknow from new delhi. He will go to Katra, near Faizabad district headquarters, to inaugurate a new railway over bridge over Saryu river at around 1100 hrs.
The BJP leader is then slated to address a public rally in Faizabad before leaving for New Delhi enroute Lucknow. Interestingly, Mr Vajpayee will travel for about 8.7 km on the special train from Katra to Faizabad. The historical saloon, comprising two coaches, would be used by a Prime Minister after two decades. It was used in 1983 by then Prime Minister Indira Gandhi for travelling from Chandigarh to Delhi.
Mr Singh, who rejoined the BJP in New Delhi on Tuesday last, told mediapersoms last night that the public meeting of the PM would be a `historic` one and will`` set the ball rolling of a landslide victory of the party in the LS polls``. Meanwhile, elaborate security arrangements have been made for PM`s visit here. Faizabad Commissioner J P Sharma here said a joint-meeting of the police and railway officials was held today to discuss the VVIP visits and to check the security aspects during the PM`s visit.
Special security arrangements had been made all through the railway track from Katra to Faizabad through which the PM`s train would pass.
Bureau Report
For the BJP, it would be a memorable event with former UP Chief Minister Kalyan Singh sharing the dais with the Prime Minister for the first time in the district. Sources said BJP leaders were leaving no stone unturned to make the public rally a grand success. when the two stand together after a gap of four years.
According to official sources, Mr Vajpayee will reach his Parliamentary constitutency Lucknow from new delhi. He will go to Katra, near Faizabad district headquarters, to inaugurate a new railway over bridge over Saryu river at around 1100 hrs.
The BJP leader is then slated to address a public rally in Faizabad before leaving for New Delhi enroute Lucknow. Interestingly, Mr Vajpayee will travel for about 8.7 km on the special train from Katra to Faizabad. The historical saloon, comprising two coaches, would be used by a Prime Minister after two decades. It was used in 1983 by then Prime Minister Indira Gandhi for travelling from Chandigarh to Delhi.
Mr Singh, who rejoined the BJP in New Delhi on Tuesday last, told mediapersoms last night that the public meeting of the PM would be a `historic` one and will`` set the ball rolling of a landslide victory of the party in the LS polls``. Meanwhile, elaborate security arrangements have been made for PM`s visit here. Faizabad Commissioner J P Sharma here said a joint-meeting of the police and railway officials was held today to discuss the VVIP visits and to check the security aspects during the PM`s visit.
Special security arrangements had been made all through the railway track from Katra to Faizabad through which the PM`s train would pass.
Bureau Report