Last Updated: January 25, 2024, 11:15 IST
Prime Minister Narendra Modi (PTI File Photo)
Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s electoral rally in UP’s Bulandshahr comes just three days after the grand ‘pran pratishtha’ ceremony at the new Ram temple in Ayodhya
Prime Minister Narendra Modi is set to kick off the campaign for the 2024 Lok Sabha election by launching development projects worth over Rs 19,100 crore at a rally in Bulandshahr in Western Uttar Pradesh on Thursday, sources from the BJP said.
The electoral rally comes just three days after the grand ‘pran pratishtha’ ceremony at the new Ram temple in Ayodhya.
According to a Hindustan Times report, the BJP has planned two-month-long events focusing on the Ram temple to mobilise support for the upcoming Lok Sabha election.
“It’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s first rally in Uttar Pradesh after Pran Pratishtha of Lord Ram in Ayodhya. The BJP has mobilised its resources for the success of the rally and organised a fortnight-long public contact drive in West U.P. to ensure that people come in strength for the PM’s rally,” Uttar Pradesh BJP chief Bhupendra Chaudhary was quoted by Hindustan Times as saying.
“The BJP hopes the Prime Minister’s rally will give a boost to the party campaign,” another party leader said.
BJP has claimed that around five lakh people will attend PM Modi’s rally in Bulandshahr’s Navada village, a TOI report mentioned.
Bulandshahr has a huge population of Lodh Rajputs, Jats, Gujjars, Muslims and Dalits, all of whom are considered BJP’s traditional support base. The BJP had won eight out of 14 seats in Western UP, losing the remaining to the SP-BSP alliance in the 2019 Lok Sabha polls.
The party, however, had registered victory at all the seven assembly seats in Bulandshahr- Anupshahar, Dibai, Khurja, Bulandshahr Sadar, Syana, Shikarpur and Sikandrabad, in the 2022 Assembly polls in UP.
Meanwhile, the opposition SP and the Congress have also focused on the western UP trying to win the support of the Muslims, Jats and Dalits to challenge the BJP.