Bulandshahr: Prime Minister Narendra Modi will kick off the campaign for the 2024 Lok Sabha election by launching development projects worth over ₹19,100 crore at rally in Bulandshahr in West U.P. on Thursday.
As the rally comes three days after the inauguration of a grand Ram temple in Ayodhya and the Pran Pratishtha (consecration) of the new Ram Lalla idol there, the prime minister is expected to rely on a combination of aastha (faith) and vikas (development) while making the party’s pitch for the Lok Sabha election.
Already, the BJP has planned two-month-long events focusing on the Ram temple to mobilise the party cadre and supporters for the 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 president Bhupendra Chaudhary said.
Located in West U.P, Bulandshahr has a sizeable population of Lodh Rajputs, Jats, Gujjars, Muslims and Dalits, all of whom are considered to be part of the BJP’s traditional support base.
Former Uttar Pradesh chief minister and ex-Rajasthan and Himachal Pradesh governor Kalyan Singh had made Bulandshahr a stronghold of the BJP, which has won the Lok Sabha seat in successive elections since 1991, except in 2009 when Kamlesh Valmiki of Samajwadi Party bagged it.
In the 2022 assembly election, the BJP won all the seven assembly seats in Bulandshahr– Anupshahar, Dibai, Khurja, Bulandshahr Sadar, Syana, Shikarpur and Sikandrabad.
The BJP had won eight of the 14 Lok Sabha seats in this part of western Uttar Pradesh in 2019 and is now looking to bag the remaining seats that it had lost to the Samajwadi Party-Bahujan Samaj Party (SP-BSP) alliance then.
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