UP BJP to launch 'new voters registration programme'

Ahead of Assembly polls in Uttar Pradesh due early next year, state Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) unit will launch a 10-day long 'new voters registration programme' starting September 1 with an aim to add new electorates in the voters' list.

"According to the data of the Election Commission, 70 lakh youths did not have voter cards till January 1. The party will launch a 10-day programme for their registration," the BJP state president Keshav Prasad Maurya said after a meeting of party office-bearers.

He said that to highlight the achievements of Narendra Modi's government and failures of Samajwadi Party regime, four 'parivartan yatras' will be taken out covering all 403 Assembly constituencies in the state.

Maurya said the party would also organise youth and women sammelans to expose the state government's failure in providing jobs to youths and security to women.

He said the state government has failed to provide relief to flood victims and the BJP would send relief material to them.