By TwoCircles.net Staff Reporter
Ahead of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s visit to his parliamentary constituency Varanasi, several political parties came together for organising a joint protest against BJP on Wednesday.
Samajwadi Party, Indian National Congress and Communist Party of India, Bahujan Samaj Party, Apna Dal (Krishna Patel) and Aam Aadmi Party held a protest march from city’s Town Hall to Lahurabir fourway.
While addressing the gathering at Lahurabir, Sanjiv Singh of Aam Aadmi Party said, “Kashi needs reform. And the country also needs liberation from those who are frequent with false and attractive announcements.”
The banners and the placards projected the central theme of the protest which mentioned the murder of Bengaluru based journalist Gauri Lankesh, deaths of children at various government hospitals of Uttar Pradesh and constant rising prices of the petrol.
It is necessary to mention that after the lapse of three years of the city as PM Modi’s constituency, the city is yet to see the development.The work of running the electricity underground has started recently, but it is still to reach many places in the city.
As PM Modi himself is scheduled to visit Varanasi on September 22, more than six months after his last visit which he did during UP Loksabha elections, the administration tried to stop the protest march.
Rajkumar Jaiswal, the district president of Samajwadi Party, said that the current government is mum on the killings of writers and thinkers across the country. The question was raised that if the silence means the acceptance and endorsement of such killings?
Congress leader Rajesh Mishra, ex-MP of the city, also addressed the gathering on behalf of INC along with Ajay Rai, ex-MLA of Pindra constituency of Varanasi.