BJP TODAY

May 1--15, 2003 - Vol. 12, No. 09

Umashri launches "Sankalp Yatra" in Madhya Pradesh
Diggyraja's shenaningans too commence
From Our Correspondent

Umashri Bharati, BJP's campaign manager for Assembly elections in Madhya Pradesh, began her "Sankalp Yatra" from the Jam Savli Hanuman temple in the Pandhurna area in Chhindwara district on April 16, the day on which Hanuman Jayanti was celebrated this year.

Present on the occasion were Shri Arun Jaitley, Union Minister of Law and Justice, who has been named by party president Vankaiah Naidu as the Ministerial nominee for the State election management set up, Shri Kailashji Joshi, president of the Madhya Pradesh BJP, vice President Dr. Gaurishankar Shejwar, Leader of Opposition in the Sate Assembly Shri Babulal Gaur, Union Minister of State for Tribal Affairs Faggan Singh Kulaste, Leader of opposition in Maharashtra Vidhan Parishad Nitin Gadkari, and Members of Parliament from Madhya Pradesh, Shri Prahalad Patel, Shri Vijay Kumar Khandelwal and Shri Shivraj Singh Chauhan.

Shri Jaitley described Umashri's "Sankalp Yatra" as the harbinger for change in Madhya Pradesh, which has remained backward during the ten years of misrule by the Congress Party. He lauded the descision of Umashri to leave the Union Council of Ministers and take up party work in the State, which he said was a revolutionary move.

Shri Kailashji Joshi held the Congress Government squarely responsible for the crises in the field of electricity supply and recalled that the BJP government had decided to set up a 460 MW power plant in Chhindwara way back in 1992, but which had yet to see the light of the day.

Shri Joshi expressed confidence that the Sankalp Yatra led by Umashri would change the face of Madhya Pradesh.

Shri Nitin Gadkari said that it was necessary to change the government in Madhya Pradesh in order to deliver the people from the stranglehold of shortages of water, electricity and bad roads.

The "Yatra" was flagged off by Shrimati Sugandha Kavreti, a Dalit lady.

In her short speech Umashri reiterated the resolve of the BJP to change the government in Madhya Pradesh in order to free the State from corruption and maladministration so that people including women and the disadvantaged sections of the society felt secure.

The huge gathering then left for Pandhurana town from the Jam Savli temple and then on to Sausar.