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Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) President Amit Shah is set to inaugurate a public relations office of Prime Minister Narendra Modi in Varanasi. He will also address a workers' convention in Lucknow on August 19. This would be his first visit to Uttar Pradesh after being made the chief of the BJP.
"BJP National President Amit Shah will visit Lucknow on August 19," BJP spokesman Vijay Bahadur Pathak said on Monday. "The next day he will visit Varanasi where he will inaugurate the public relations office of prime minister and Varanasi MP Modi."
Pathak said the BJP president would address a big convention of party workers in Lucknow.
Shah was in charge of the party affairs in Uttar Pradesh and was believed to be instrumental in ensuring the party's spectacular showing in the state in the Lok Sabha elections. Pathak said that on August 23 Shah would inaugurate and address the state executive meeting, scheduled to be held in Vrindavan.
