BJP will rid Rae Bareli of 'parivarvad', says Amit Shah
India | April 21, 2018 21:25 ISTAddressing a public meeting, Shah said Rae Bareli voted for top Congress leaders, but had not witnessed development since Independence.
Addressing a public meeting, Shah said Rae Bareli voted for top Congress leaders, but had not witnessed development since Independence.
A minor fire broke out at the venue of a public meeting of Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath and BJP president Amit Shah in Raebareli, triggering panic and commotion in the audience. The fire, which was brought under control in short time,
Shah will also hold meetings with party workers to review the BJP’s preparedness for the 2019 general elections.
The Congress president represents Amethi in Lok Sabha while his mother Sonia Gandhi is Lok Sabha MP from Raebareli.
BJP spokesperson Anil Baluni said Rahul Gandhi should not worry about Modi and should rather be concerned about his and Sonia Gandhi's electoral fate in 2019.
Workers of both parties clashed reportedly after BJP supporters protested with banners and placards against the Congress president.
NTPC has also announced a financial assistance of Rs 5 lakh each to the families of the dead. The Prime Minister's Relief Fund will also give Rs 2 lakh each to the next of kin of the deceased.
Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi visited Raebareli today to meet the victims of an explosion in a boiler at NTPC's Unchahar plant where at least 30 people have been killed.
The NTPC plant, which started generating power in 1988, has five power generating units of 210 MW each.
On June 26, five people were lynched to death by the residents of UP’s Apta village when they tried to escape after setting the house of the village pradhan on fire, police said
Six out of 10 assembly seats in Amethi and Rae Bareli parliamentary constituencies -- long considered Congress strongholds -- have gone to the BJP while two went to the Samajwadi Party, leaving the grand old party gasping with just two.
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