Gorakhpur: Ahead of the state polls next year, Prime Minister Narendra Modi to be in Uttar Pradesh yet again to launch 3 Mega projects. Gorakhpur is among the most prominent cities of eastern UP and the manor, of Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath.
PM Modi will take part in the reopening ceremony of the city’s fertilizer factory that has been shut for close to three decades. PM Modi will also inaugurate a 300-bed AIIMS facility and a regional medical research centre that has virus research and testing lab.
The three projects together cost ₹ 10,000 crore and front-page ads in all newspapers have announced the Prime Minister’s visit, the government claims.
In Gorakhpur, the Prime Minister will address the gathering, a quasi-political event similar to those organized for his previous UP visits – the most recent one being the inauguration of the Purvanchal Expressway in Sultanpur and the foundation stone ceremony of the Noida international airport.
Purvanchal or eastern UP is a crucial region for the BJP with the state election early next year. The party won a majority of the region’s 150 plus seats in the 2017 polls. Although, Akhilesh Yadav of the Samajwadi Party – the BJP’s main challenger- has allied with many including many eastern UP allies which includes Om Prakash Rajbhar of the Suheldev Bhartiya Samaj Party who fought the 2017 polls as a BJP ally.
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