CM Yogi, other senior leaders take part in 'Kamal Sandesh Bike Rally'

Varanasi: Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath along with party state president Mahendra Nath Pandey and other leaders of Bharatiya Janata Party hit the road on Saturday by taking part in the Kamal Sandesh Bike Rally.

The campaign has been organised to make people aware of the achievements of the Central and the UP governments.

CM Yogi lead the campaign in Varanasi, the parliamentary constituency of Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

Deputy Chief Minister Keshav Prasad Maurya joined the bike rally in Allahabad (now Prayagraj) and Deputy Chief Minister Dinesh Sharma will lead in Lucknow.

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BJP state president Mahendra Nath Pandey lead the rally in his parliamentary constituency Chandauli and BJP general secretary (organisation) Sunil Bansal in Kannauj, the bastion of Samajwadi Party.

BJP state general secretary and MLA Pankaj Singh, who is son of Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh, lead the bike rally in Gorakhpur, the native place of Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath.

The bike rally has been organised in the run-up to the 2019 Lok Sabha polls, covered all the 80 Lok Sabha constituencies in the state.

The party leadership has directed the cadre and leaders to get at least five motorcyclists from each polling booth. All the party leaders, including parliamentarians, legislators and office-bearers, have been directed to ensure full participation in the rally, which will be a show of strength. There are about 1,60,000 polling booths in the 80 parliamentary and 403 assembly constituencies in 75 districts.

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Party spokesperson Chandra Mohan said, "We are expecting participation of one lakh party workers and cadre in this mass mobilisation programme, which aims at creating awareness about the good works being done by the Central and the state governments."

He added, "We are expecting at least 10,000 bikes and over 15,000 partymen in the rally in every parliamentary constituency."