Modi to visit UP twice in April

Lucknow, March 15 (IANS) Prime Minister Narendra Modi will visit Uttar Pradesh twice in April to participate in programmes organised by the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), an official said on Tuesday.

Modi will take part in an event on April 14 marking the birth anniversary of Dalit icon B.R. Ambedkar.

A series of programmes and events have been lined up in April that will start on the birth anniversary of Ambedkar and conclude on April 24, with a programme in Agra, party spokesman Vijay Bahadur Pathak told IANS.

After a series of political reverses, the party has decided to go all out to woo the Dalits in the upcoming assembly elections.

-- Indo-Asian News Service
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2016-03-15-13:55:32