New Delhi: A vaastu compliant stage that is 100-feet long, astrologers propitiating the gods and invitations sent through social networking sites – the BJP has pulled out all stops to make its prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi’s maiden rally in Uttar Pradesh at Kanpur a success. And the spade work, party sources say, has been “unprecedented”. The rally which has been named as ‘Vijaya Sankhanaad’ has a separate gallery for youth, which has been set up close to the dais where Modi would be speaking.
Kanpur has been decked with posters, hoardings, bunting and banners that give details of the rally and its venue-the social welfare department ground opposite the Gautam Buddha Park in Indiranagar. The holding of the rally in Kanpur, which is widely regarded as a bastion of the Rashtriya Swayam Sewak Sangh (RSS), is being projected as a crucial strategic move to snare as many Lok Sabha seats as possible out of the total 80 seats that are up for grabs in Uttar Pradesh during next year’s General Election. The BJP has set itself a target of 40 plus seats from UP. It currently holds 10 of the 80 Lok Sabha seats.
Bureau Report
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