CHANDIGARH (Aryavarth): Union Home Minister Amit Shah will visit Haryana’s Mahendragarh on Tuesday, where he will address a meeting of the backward classes.
This will be Shah’s second visit in the past over a fortnight to Haryana, which goes to polls later this year.
“Union Home and Cooperation Minister Shri @AmitShah ji will address the Backward Classes Samman Sammelan,” Haryana BJP chief Mohan Lal Badoli posted on X on Monday.
The event will be held in Mahendragarh’s Pali.
During the past 10 years, the BJP has reaped good electoral gains in the Ahirwal belt in south Haryana, in which Mahendragarh falls. In the recently held Lok Sabha polls too, while Congress wrested five of the 10 seats from the BJP, it failed to defeat the ruling party in Bhiwani-Mahendragarh and Gurugram parliamentary constituencies.
On June 29, Shah addressed BJP leaders and workers during a meeting of the party’s extended state executive at Panchkula, during which he said the BJP would fight the upcoming assembly polls alone under the leadership of Chief Minister Nayab Singh Saini.
Shah had exuded confidence that the party would come back to power in the state with a full majority for its third consecutive term.
Last month, Chief Minister Saini also addressed a gathering at the ‘OBC Morcha Sarv Samaj Samrasta Sammelan’ held in Gurugram.
In that event, Saini announced an increase in the annual income limit for the creamy layer from Rs 6 lakh to Rs 8 lakh, while maintaining that it will provide “significant benefits” in employment for the OBC category.
