Eye On 2022 Polls, BJP To Start UP Outreach Plan With 7 New Ministers

Earlier this month, seven MPs from Uttar Pradesh became Union ministers in the latest cabinet expansion.

Ahead of next year's Assembly election in Uttar Pradesh, the BJP will carry out an outreach programme through newly inducted seven Union ministers from the state in over 200 assembly segments, sources in the party said today. BJP chief J P Nadda has asked all the 40 newly inducted Union ministers, including those from Uttar Pradesh, to carry out a ''Jan Ashirwad Yatra'' covering three to four parliamentary constituencies, including their own, and four to five districts in their states to "seek blessings from the people", a senior leader said. They have been asked to start these outreach programmes from August 16 while following all Covid protocols. MPs from the state where each of the ministers belongs have been asked to help them in these activities, sources said. They said these ''yatras'' will act as a launchpad for the party's campaign for the assembly elections in many states in the next few years.