BJP national chief JP Nadda is all set to flag off his partys Jan Ashiwad Yatra today in the election-bound Madhya Pradesh to seek the blessing of the people and reach out to them, from the holy city of Chitrakoot in Satna district.Assembly elections in the BJP-ruled state are due by the end of this year.BJP chief JP Nadda to flag off Jan Ashiward Yatra todaySpeaking to the news agency on PTI, BJP district president Satish Sharma said on the call, “Naddaji is expected to reach Chitrakoot around 10 am. He will participate in a function for the launch of the yatra around 11 am and flag it off at noon.”Another party leader said, “Four such yatras will be taken out from other places in the next week.”During the yatras, the BJP will reach out to the people through large public meetings and highlight the welfare schemes of the Centre and state and their achievements.PM Modi to address party workers in MP on Sept 25Moreover, Prime Minister Narendra Modi is also expected to address the gathering of BJP workers to mark the culmination of these five mass-contact programmes on September 25 in MPs Bhopal, said party leaders.Notably, September 25 is the birth anniversary of the late Deendayal Upadhyaya, a veteran leader of the Bharatiya Jana Sangh that later became the BJP.The yatra from Chitrakoot will pass through the Vindhya region of Madhya Pradesh. In the 2018 assembly elections, the BJP had won 24 of the 30 seats in this region.Further, the party leaders said that these five yatras will cover more than 10,500 km by crisscrossing 210 of MPs 230 assembly constituencies before reaching Bhopal.Karyakarta MahakumbhAlthough the leaders will reach the capital city by September 21, the formal culmination of the yatras will happen on September 25 with a Karyakarta Mahakumbh.While Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan was at the forefront of such programmes ahead of the last assembly polls, but now BJP central has decided to involve Union ministers Amit Shah, Rajnath Singh and Nitin Gadkari for the yatras this time.Back in the 2018 polls, the Congress won 114 of 230 seats while the BJP finished second with 109 seats.The Congress formed a coalition government with the support of independents, BSP, and SP under Kamal Nath. However, it collapsed after 15 months when a string of Congress MLAs led by Jyotiraditya Scindia, now a Union minister, joined the BJP, paving the way for Chouhans return as chief minister.
