The Bharatiya Janata Party today formally announced cancellation of the remaining part of its twin Bharat Suraksha Yatra undertaken by party President Rajnath Singh and senior leader L K Advani following the "sad and untimely demise" of BJP General Secretary Pramod Mahajan. | |
| The announcement was made by Singh in Mumbai, party spokesman Prakash Javadekar said. |
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| The yatras were to cover areas in Uttar Pradesh, Rajasthan, Punjab and Haryana. "The culminating rally in Delhi on May 10 also stands cancelled," he said. |
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| The decision to cancel the twin yatras, announced in the wake of the Varanasi bomb blasts in March, was taken at a meeting of senior party leaders, including Advani and Singh, in Mumbai, where they had gathered for Mahajan's funeral. |
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| Singh had begun his yatra from Bhubaneswar on April 6 while Advani started from Rajkot the same day. |
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| The twin yatras were aimed at exposing the UPA government's alleged failures on several fronts including internal, external, energy and food security, besides the "minority appeasement policies". |
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| While Singh had so far covered 3,738 km of his 5,500-km yatra spanning across eight states, Advani covered nearly 4,700 km of his 6,000-km yatra across six states. Singh addressed as many as 72 public meetings and 134 small meetings while Advani addressed 170 big and small meetings. |
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