Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) president Amit Shah will visit Pinarayi, the native place of Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan, during the party’s State-level Janaraksha Yatra that he will flag off at Payyannur here on September 7.
Announcing this at a press conference here on Wednesday, BJP national executive member P.K. Krishnadas said the party supremo would also join the yatra being led by party State president Kummanam Rajasekharan.
Mr. Shah had agreed to join the yatra for three days in the district, he said adding that Mr. Shah’s presence would give an impetus to the BJP’s campaign against political violence and the CPI(M). The BJP leader exuded the hope that the yatra would have a major impact on the politics in the State.
Stating that the yatra was against the ‘red terror’ of the CPI(M) and ‘jihadi terror,’ Mr. Krishnadas said the jatha was being started in Kannur because it had become a hub of both. The campaign would cover 11 districts before concluding in Thiruvananthapuram on September 23.
The BJP president would attend the yatra in the capital also, Mr. Krishnadas said. He alleged that the State government had failed to act against jihadi operations in the State. He accused the CPI(M) of having camaraderie with jihadi groups in the name of the fight against Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the BJP.
