Yogi Adityanath to flag off BJP’s Vijay Yatra in poll-bound Kerala on Feb 21

After Prime Minister Narendra Modi's visit to South India, Bhartiya Janata Party is all set to expand its outreach in region with help of a rath yatra in Kerala ahead of polls. BJP's 'Vijaya Yathra' will be launched in Kerala on February 21 from Kasaragod and will end at Thiruvananthapuram in first week of March. Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath is expected to inaugurate saffron party's 'Vijaya Yathra' along with several or cabinet ministers and top brass of BJP heading yatras throughout its duration. 

"It is more on lines of Jan Raksha yatra that we took out led by Amit Shah. However, that was against political violence against our karyakartas and people of state. Vijaya Yathra is to sound bugle of polls and to win m," said a senior functionary of BJP Kerala unit to news ncy ANI. 

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PM's development push to Kerala

Earlier in day, PM Modi visited state to lay  foundation stone of various development projects in Kochi where he spoke about how new projects would furr Kerala's journey to becoming 'Aatmanirbhar.' While inaugurating Propylene Derivatives Petrochemical complex of Kochi refinery PM said, "This project will help our journey towards becoming Aatmanirbhar. With this complex, forex will be saved, a wide range of industries would gain, and employment opportunities will be generated." 

PM Modi also spoke about furring tourism in state encouraging youth to come up with invative ideas for tourism-related projects. "I urge our young start-up friends to think about invative tourism-related products. I also urge you all to use this time and travel to as many nearby areas as possible. You'd be happy to kw that tourism sector in India has grown well in last five years," he said. 

Earlier this month, BJP national president JP Nadda had also visited poll-bound Kerala where he reviewed organisational activities in wake of upcoming elections.

Kerala's 140 assembly seats will go to polls in April. BJP is expecting to up ante in state after party mand to win only 1 seat from Nemom in 2016 polls. 

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(With ncy Inputs)