PM Narendra Modi set to have breakfast with Uttar Pradesh MPs today, ahead of Assembly polls

According to sources 40 MPs have been invited. Uttar Pradesh is slated to go for polls early next year (2022).

Pic courtesy: ANI

New Delhi: The Assembly Election in UP is just some months away and political parties are gearing up for the big electoral battle ahead. According to sources, Prime Minister Narendra Modi would meet BJP MPs from Uttar Pradesh today (December 17) over breakfast.

"The Prime Minister will meet party MPs from Uttar Pradesh tomorrow on breakfast. Total 40 MPs are invited," a source said on Thursday, as quoted by ANI. Earlier this week, the Prime Minister had inaugurated Kashi Vishwanath Dham in Varanasi, his parliamentary constituency. He chaired a meeting of BJP chief ministers and deputy chief ministers on "good governance practices" in Varanasi on December 11.

Uttar Pradesh is slated to go for polls early next year. In the 2017 Assembly elections in Uttar Pradesh, the Bharatiya Janata Party bagged 312 seats out of the 403-seat Uttar Pradesh Assembly while Samajwadi Party (SP) bagged 47 seats, Bahujan Samajwadi Party (BSP) won 19 and Congress could manage to win only seven seats. The rest of the seats were bagged by other candidates.

PM Modi has several other engagements in the state. He is all set to lay the foundation stone of Ganga Expressway in Uttar Pradesh’s Shahjahanpur on December 18, the Prime Minister`s Office (PMO) confirmed. The Expressway will connect Bijauli village in Meerut to the Judapur Dandu village in Prayagraj. “It will pass through Meerut, Hapur, Bulandshahr, Amroha, Sambhal, Badaun, Shahjahanpur, Hardoi, Unnao, Rae Bareli, Pratapgarh and Prayagraj,” the PMO said.  

Last month, the PM had laid the foundation stone of the Noida International Airport (NIA) in Jewar on November 25. With this airport in Gautam Buddh Nagar, Uttar Pradesh will also become the only state in India to have five international airports. The airport will be the logistics gateway of northern India and due to its scale and capacity, it will be a game-changer for Uttar Pradesh, the PMO had said.