BJP president Amit Shah arrived here today to address a public rally on the second anniversary of Vasundhra Raje-led Rajasthan government.
The BJP leader reached at Sanganer airport this morning, where he was received by the Chief Minister, party state president Ashok Parnami and other party leaders and workers.
The party chief will address the public gathering at Janpath in front of the state assembly building.
He termed as unfortunate the situation in the country and
said villages are without electricity, youths are jobless, agriculture fields are without irrigation facilities and poor patients are dying for want of medicines.
He said the country could not repay the debt of known and unknown martyrs who laid down their lives for freedom.
The BJP president assured the people of the area that he would pass on the message of converting Kakori memorial into a tourist place.
The Tiranga Yatras will be held till August 23 in which 75 ministers will visit 150 places associated with the freedom struggle and seven women ministers will visit the country's borders to tie rakhis on soldiers deployed there.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi flagged off celebrations on Tuesday from the home of freedom fighter Chandrashekhar Azad in Madhya Pradesh.
With eyes firmly set on Uttar Pradesh, where assembly elections are due early next year, BJP has lined up a host of Union ministers to visit the state as part of its Tiranga Yatra.
"Tiranga Yatra will be carried out in two phases. Union ministers and senior party functionaries will participate in the yatra," BJP state general secretary Vijay Bahadur Pathak said.
Home Minister Rajnath Singh would participate in the yatra at Shahjahanpur and Transport Minister Nitin Gadkari will do so in Mughalsarai.
Other ministers who would participate in the yatra include Uma Bharti (Jhansi), Ram Vilas Paswan (Akbarpur), J P Nadda (Lucknow), Chaudhary Birender Singh (Pratapgarh), Prakash Javadekar (Gorakhpur), Dharmendra Pradhan (Agra), Piyush Goyal (Mathura), Ram Kripal Yadav (Bijnor), Haribhai Parthibhai Chaudhary (Ghaziabad), Kiren Rijiju (Kanpur), Krishna Pal (Aligarh), Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore (Meerut), and Anupriya Patel (Faizabad), Pathak added.
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Earlier, Shah paid tributes to martyrs of Kakori train
robbery at the memorial and planted a sapling. He also had lunch with BJP MP Kaushal Kishore before leaving for Delhi.
