Union Home Minister Amit Shah  |  Photo Credit: ANI
Key Highlights
- In 2014, when Amit Shah was Uttar Pradesh in-charge, the BJP had won 73 Lok Sabha seats.
- The party won 67 Lok Sabha seats out of 80 in 2019 in UP
Lucknow: Union Home Minister Amit Shah will participate in Bharatiya Janata Party’s (BJP) ‘Jan Vishwas Yatra’ in Uttar Pradesh today to woo the voters in the poll-bound state.
He is scheduled to address public rallies in Kasganj and Jalaun. His programmes are likely to be attended by several senior BJP leaders in the state.
Amit Shah will tour Uttar Pradesh extensively in the coming few days with sources suggesting he will cover 140 Assembly constituencies in the next four days.
Sources also said that each of his programmes will be attended by people from three OBC-dominated constituencies, two urban constituencies, one scheduled caste-dominated constituency and one minority-dominated constituency.
Among the key features of Shah’s visit will be his late-evening meetings with party workers to deliberate on strategies for the upcoming elections.
The BJP plans to put Shah on the forefront of organisational strategy even as Prime Minister Narendra Modi goes on a spree to lay foundation stones or launch developmental projects in the state.
It was under the leadership of Shah as BJP chief that the party had won a massive majority in the 2017 Uttar Pradesh assembly polls, and won 67 Lok Sabha seats out of 80 in 2019.
In 2014, when he was Uttar Pradesh in-charge, the BJP had won 73 Lok Sabha seats.