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Sankalp yatra van leaves for Rampur

NEW DELHI: The first of about two dozen vans rigged up as “sankalp yatra vahans” carrying street play artists left here on Friday for villages around Rampur in Uttar Pradesh, ahead of a major youth rally planned there by the Bharatiya Janata Party on February 10.

The van was flagged off by general secretary Arun Jaitley.

More vans will travel to different States over the rest of the year to carry the BJP’s political message: the United Progressive Alliance government’s “failures” on the price front and on the issues of farmers and terrorism. Vice-president Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi, whose idea this is, said the message would be conveyed through street plays, films and songs.

“It will be down-to-earth, no high tech.” The BJP plans to take “sankalp vahans” to 300 parliamentary constituencies over the year.

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