BJP 38th Foundation Day: Modi, Shah to address partymen in Mumbai; updates
The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Friday organised grand celebrations, marking the party's 38th foundation day in Mumbai. BJP decided to dedicate its day-long effort to party workers at a time when it is either directly or indirectly in power in 21 states. Prime Minister Narendra Modi will interact with BJP workers of five Lok Sabha seats and with the presidents of the party's 734 district units today on the occasion of its 38 foundation day, a BJP statement said. The five Lok Sabha constituencies chosen are New Delhi, North East Delhi, Hamirpur in Himachal Pradesh, North Central Mumbai and Saran in Bihar. Their MPs are Meenakshi Lekhi, Manoj Tiwari, Anurag Thakur, Poonam Mahajan and Rajiv Pratap Rudy respectively. Top 10 developments on BJP Foundation Day celebrations, Mumbai traffic and
2019 Lok Sabha elections 1. BJP Foundation Day celebration will see over 3 lakh party workers: The 'Maha Rally' at the Bandra Kurla Complex in Central Mumbai will have in attendance, Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis among other party members who are to arrive from across the state. BJP had booked 28 trains and 50,000 private buses and vehicles for the mega event. Mumbai braces for heavy traffic: Residents of Mumbai will have to brace for massive traffic jams ahead of the BJP's foundation day celebrations planned at the MMRDA grounds in Bandra Kurla Complex in the heart of the city today. Mumbai police warns students who have exams: The Mumbai Police have issued advisories for those travelling in areas around the Western Express Highway. "Traffic congestion is likely to occur on approach roads to Western Express Highway and Eastern Express Highway towards BKC. Shah chaired Maharashtra BJP core committee meet in Mumbai: Amit Shah on Thursday chaired a meeting of the party's Maharashtra unit core committee and discussed issues such as the expansion of organisational base at the booth level and setting up of hi-tech party offices in every district. BJP set for Lok Sabha elections 2019: Sources in the BJP say that this "direct connect with the workers" is not going to be a one-off incident but a regular exercise from here on. Modi has picked the New Delhi constituency which has Meenakshi Lekhi as party MP; North East Delhi where BJP chief and Bhojpuri film star Manoj Tiwari is MP; North Central Mumbai where Poonam Mahajan is an MP; Anurag Thakur's constituency of Hamirpur in Himachal Pradesh and Rajiv Pratap Rudy's constituency of Saran in Bihar for the first of such efforts today. Dalit protests, a cause of worry for BJP: The countrywide Dalit protests against dilution of the Scheduled Caste and Scheduled Tribe (Prevention of Atrocities) Act, 1989 (SC/ST Act), which claimed nine lives on Monday has thrown the spotlight on the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-led Union government’s stance on caste issues. Mamata Banerjee's anti-BJP front with Congress takes shape:West Bengal Chief Minister and TMC chief Mamata Banerjee last week met United Progressive Alliance (UPA) Chairperson Sonia Gandhi and made it clear that the Congress was a must for any one-on-one fight with the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), and that the Opposition party could not be excluded from any anti-BJP alliance in the Lok Sabha elections 2019. A brief history of the BJP: The party was founded on April 6, 1980. Its first conclave the same year was held at the Bandra Reclamation in Mumbai.It was at that rally that then party president and the man who became prime minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee in his speech recited the BJP's clarion call, "Andhera Chhatega, Suraj Niklega, Kamal Khilega" (Darkness will dissipate, the sun will rise and lotus will bloom).
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