BJP to hold ‘Jan Ashirvad Yatra’ in Coimbatore from August 16

Coimbatore

The Yatra is to highlight the achievements of the BJP-led government a the Centre and take the schemes door to door in the rural areas of the district, BJP Tamil Nadu president, K Annamalai told reporters here. Murugan will visit Nilgiris and Namakkal during his three-day yatra, as part of the Nation-wide campaign of the BJP, in which 44 union ministers and party leaders will participate, to strengthen the party base across India, he said. Annamalai termed as ‘political vendetta’ the searches carried out on the premises linked to former AIADMK minister, S P Velumani, his friends and relatives across the state in connection with graft charges. The party is getting ready to contest for the local body polls scheduled to be held in the middle of next month, Annamalai said.