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BJP national president J.P. Nadda [File Photo]
BJP President J.P. Nadda will embark on a two-day visit to Uttar Pradesh from Monday, during which he will attend a series of organisational meetings, including those with the party’s booth heads from Gorakhpur and Kanpur.
According to a BJP spokesman, Nadda will start his programme by offering puja at the Gorakhnath temple in Gorakhpur and then attend a number of party programmes before reaching Lucknow in the evening where he will chair key meetings.
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Nadda will be visiting Kanpur on Tuesday.
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Uttar Pradesh is heading for the crucial Assembly polls in early next year and the BJP has already unleashed a hectic campaign in the state.
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