BJP heavyweights to visit Amethi

October 08, 2017 20:47

BJP heavyweights Amit Shah and Smriti Irani are set to visit Amethi, considered a Congress bastion, three days after Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi visited the parliamentary constituency.

Union Minister of Textiles and Information and Broadcasting Smriti Irani is scheduled to arrive on Monday, while BJP chief Amit Shah will visit on October 10.

A number of schemes and projects are likely to be announced and their foundation stones laid at a function on Tuesday to be attended by Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath.

The beneficiaries of various schemes will be handed over certificates, the statement said.

Amethi, which has traditionally been a Congress bastion, had in 2014 Lok Sabha elections witnessed a high-pitched electoral battle between Gandhi and Irani.

Though Irani lost to the Congress scion, she managed to reduce his victory margin from around 3.70 lakh in 2009 to 1.07 lakh in 2014.

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