Mission 2019: BJP, Congress presidents focus Uttar Pradesh

Lucknow, Jul 2 After Prime Minister Narendra Modi sounded election bugle from Maghar in Sant Kabir Nagar a week ago, now BJP and Congress presidents will be in Uttar Pradesh to feel the beat of individuals and gathering laborers for the significant 2019 Lok Sabha polls.

While Congress president Rahul Gandhi will be on a two-day visit to his parliamentary constituency Amethi from July 4, amid which he is probably going to meet party workers and attend several programmers, BJP president Amit Shah will be in Varanasi, Mirzapur and Agra on similar dates.

Gandhi will visit the family of a muslim farmer who passed on in May while holding up to offer his deliver at a government procurement center.

"The death of farmers indicated apathetic attitude of state government. He passed on sitting tight for quite a long time to offer his deliver. Rahulji will absolutely visit his home and meet his relatives," Congress MLC Deepak Singh stated, including that not a single BJP leader has gone to the agriculturist's home.

According BJP leaders, Shah will try to feel the pulse of the state in a meeting with Lok Sabha in-charges of Kashi, Gorakhpur and Awadh districts on July 4.

Shah will also address a social media workers' meet organised by the party's IT cell and give "winning tips" to the specialists, a senior BJP leader said.

"Anybody active on social media can go to the meeting. For that, earlier registration will proceed till today. The party chief will be interacting with the members," leader of BJP's IT cell Sanjay Rai said.

The meet accept significance as the BJP would be using social media platforms to "forcefully" counter the opposition's promulgation against it.

In Agra on July 5, Shah will attend intellectuals meet and take feedback from Lok Sabha in-charges.

For 2019, BJP does not have any desire to leave any stone unturned as in 2014, it was Uttar Pradesh from where the party got the maximum 73 seats (counting two of Apna Dal) out of the total 80 seats.

Shah will also be reviewing the performance of Yogi Adityanath government's ministers as there are discussions that the bureau of some of them may be changed after the visit.

The party has witnessed humiliating defeat in Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath's Gorakhpur and Deputy CM Keshav Prasad Maurya's Kaushambi and furthermore in Kairana parliamentary and Noorpur assembly bypolls.

After sounding poll bugle from Maghar (Sant Kabir Nagar), PM Modi is probably going to visit UP again on July 14-15, amid which he will go to open gatherings in Azamgarh and his body electorate, Varanasi, other than establishing framework of Purvanchal freeway.

The PM's program is under conclusion and preparations are on for it. Azamgarh parliamentary constituency is represented
by senior Samajwadi Party leader Mulayam Singh Yadav, who will this time challenge from Mainpuri.

During his Maghar visit on June 28, PM Modi had slammed the opposition parties, saying a few parties need "agitation" by making questions in the psyches of the people for "political gains" however were cut off from ground reality.

The PM had also ripped into the Samajwadi Party and the Bahujan Samaj Party expressing that those who always talk of 'samajwad' and 'bahujan' are "to a great degree narrow minded" and they don't see the welfare of society yet just the welfare of themselves and their families.