BJP set to launch campaign to collect material for Statue of Unity

A meeting for the preparation of the event was held at the BJP office two days ago. Party workers would be assigned different areas from where the collection would be done. Along with this, pictures of members of the gram panchayat would be clicked and sent to Gujarat.

The statue of Sardar Patel is expected to be the tallest in the world at 182 metres. Further, it will contain a gallery where pictures of all gram panchayats members from where the material is being collected would be kept.
The project initiated by BJP’s prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi is expected to help the party reach out to voters in remote corners of the country in the run up to the Lok Sabha elections.

National co-ordinator of the project OP Dhanker said, “We are covering 6.5 lakh villages across the country. The soil from villages would be collected from schools and religious places. The literature being distributed is in the native language of the state. The campaign for Chandigarh and Punjab will start shortly. In Haryana, it would be completed by the end of January.”

President of BJP’s city unit Sanjay Tandon said preparations for the campaign were on. “We have received the kits. Next week we will go to villages to collect the material. If there is a demand that villages under the municipal corporation are also included, we would do that,” he said.