Amit Shah arrives in J&K on 2-day visit

BJP National President Amit Shah on Saturday began a country-wide 95-day tour from Jammu to strategize ways to strengthen the party at the grass-roots level with an eye to win the 2019 Lok Sabha election.

The visit assumes significance in view of the deteriorating security condition in the state and tension between coalition partners--the BJP and the PDP--following certain remarks made by some BJP leaders and a minister.

Shah arrived at the Jammu airport this morning, where the ministers and party leaders received him. He was later taken to the Government Guest House in a big cavalcade in a scooter and motorcycle rally.

Jammu wore a beautiful look with thousands of flags, flowers and banners donning the roads.

Flanked by BJP leaders Ram Lal, Jitendra Singh and Anil Jain, Shah is scheduled to address a meeting of MPs, MLAs, MLCs, VCs and state office bearers at the Government Convention Centre.

He will later address a large gathering of senior citizens at the same venue.

The BJP office in a tweet said that Shah today began the 95-day long country-wide visit from Jammu and Kashmir.

The main aim of the visit was to strengthen the party at the booth-level and to spread and reach out to the last man in the last row with the prime minister's pro-poor

schemes, it said.