Amit Shah arrives to grand welcome in city

Sandeep Rana

Tribune News Service

Chandigarh, May 20

A large number of BJP workers and supporters accorded a grand welcome to party chief Amit Shah at Chandigarh International Airport here on Saturday morning and took out a roadshow, escorting him to party office in Sector 33.

The BJP chief is on a 95-day country-wide tour which began in Jammu last month. With an eye on the 2019 Lok Sabha poll, Shah is travelling across states to strategise and find ways to strengthen the party at the grass-roots level.

Shah was received by Chandigarh BJP president Sanjay Tandon, party’s local MP Kirron Kher, in-charge Prabhat Jha, Mayor Asha Kumari Jaswal and others.

A large number of cars and two-wheelers escorted Shah from the airport to party office Kamlam in Sector 33.

En route the BJP office, the car carrying Shah stopped at many places and he was greeted by supporters who presented him with bouquets.

Later, Shah inaugurated the newly-renovated party office and unveiled a statue of RSS icon Pandit Deen Dayal Upadhyay, whose birth centenary is being celebrated this year. He also inaugurated a library named after Nanaji Deshmukh and an e-library.

The Nanaji Deshmukh library will have around 2,000 books on various subjects, Tandon said.

The BJP national president will hold a series of meetings with councillors, party office-bearers, workers and will also review the party’s organisational activities, Tandon said.

Shah will also interact with prominent people from different fields like medicine, law, finance and art later in the day.

This is Shah’s first visit after the BJP swept the Municipal Corporation elections here, which were held in December 2016. He had visited the city in November for campaigning for the civic polls.

“Chandigarh is the fourth place on Shah’s itinerary for the 95-day tour which began with his visit to Jammu on April 29. The BJP chief has also visited Himachal Pradesh and Tripura,” Tandon said. With PTI inputs