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BJP plans to woo cadres, voters in UP
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ASIANAGE on 17 July, 2008 02:46:39
 
BY AMITA VERMA
LUCKNOW
July 17: The Bhartiya Janata Party (BJP) has drawn up an ambitious programme to
mobilise its cadres and regain the lost ground in Uttar Pradesh.
According to BJP UP state president Dr Ramapati Ram Tripathi, BJP leaders
across the state will address 15,000 meetings of party workers to apprise them
of the issues that the party will focus on during the Lok Sabha elections.
"Our target is to hold 1,000 meetings every day from August 9 to 23. We want to
inform our cadres that we will be using the Amarnathji Shrine Board issue, the
deteriorating law and order in UP, minority appeasement by Central and state
government and the rising inflation as election issues. Leaders of all statures
will address these meetings," he said.
From August 15 to October 15, the BJP plans to address booth-level workers in
all parliamentary segments and explain to them the importance of election
management. "From August 28 to the end of September, we will hold state-level
rallies in Varanasi, Ghaziabad, Meerut, Agra, Aligarh, Moradabad, Bareilly,
Gonda and Gorakhpur," the BJP state president said.
Dr Tripathi said that the political scenario in Uttar Pradesh was rapidly
changing and the real faces of the SP and BSP have been exposed.
"Recent developments show that these parties are not concerned about the nation
but are concerned only about their personal interests. They are not averse to
pampering criminals, corrupt elements and fundamentalists to achieve their
political interests," he said and added that four BSP ministers were already in
jail and a dozen BSP MLAs had criminal cases against them.