In Poll-Bound MP, BJP Top Brass To Launch Mass Outreach Programme 'Jan Ashirwad Yatra' From Sept First Week

First Jan Ashirwad Yatra will be flagged off on September 3 by BJP President JP Nadda from Chitrakoot in the Vindhya region

The Bharatiya Janata Party will flag off ‘Jan Ashirwad Yatras’ in poll bound Madhya Pradesh in the first week of September. The yatras will be flagged off by party president JP Nadda, Union Home Minister Amit Shah and other leaders from five places in Madhya Pradesh which is due to undergo polls for its 230-member legislative assembly this year-end. These will be flagged off by Shah, Nadda, Union ministers Rajnath Singh and Nitin Gadkari from different places, a party spokesman said, according to PTI. 

These yatras, a mass outreach programme of the ruling party, will traverse through  Vindhya, Mahakaushal, Malwa, Gwalior-Chambal and Bundelkhand regions before culminating in Bhopal, the spokesman said. 

The first ‘Jan Ashirwad Yatra’ will be flagged off by Nadda on September 3 from Chitrakoot in the Vindhya region and the march will reach state capital Bhopal via Niwari, he added. 

The second yatra will be inaugurated by Shah on September 5 from Mandla and will reach Bhopal via Jabalpur, the report stated quoting the spokesman as saying. 

On September 6, a march will be inaugurated by Gadkari from Khandwa under the Indore division, he said.

Apart from this, Defence Minister Rajnath Singh will also flag off one Jan Vishwas Yatra from Neemuch in the Malwa region on September 4, said the spokesman. 

All these yatras will culminate in Bhopal on September 25, where a “Karyakarta Mahakumbh” (mega gathering of party workers) will be organised, said state BJP secretary Rajneesh Agrawal. 

Prime Minister Narendra Modi has also been invited for the gathering, Agrawal said. 

While announcing the yatra this week, Union Minister Narendra Singh Tomar and state unit Chief VD Sharma also said Prime Minister Narendra Modi has already been invited to address a workers' meeting to mark the culmination of the yatra in Bhopal on September 25 which is also the birth anniversary of stalwart Deendayal Upadhyaya. 

Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan will also participate for a few hours on each day of the yatra, said Tomar who is also the party's MP election management committee convenor.