Lucknow, April 25: Senior Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leaders in Uttar Pradesh, including Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath, state unit chief Mahendra Nath Pandey and Organization Secretary Sunil Bansal, will be staying overnight at different villages on Thursday, a party spokesman said on Wednesday.
During the stay, which is part of the party's outreach programme to rural India, as announced by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on B.R. Ambedkar's birth anniversary this year, the ruling party leaders and office bearers along with ministers of the state government will interact with the people, take feedback of the programmes of the government on the ground level and test for themselves the efficiency of the government.
State BJP General Secretary Govind Narayan Shukla said that under the 'Gram Swaraj' mission, Pandey will spend the night at Sarethi village in Ayodhya, Adityanath will be in Mehndipur village at Amroha, Bansal will interact with villagers and Dalits at Barter village in Lakhimpur, Union Minister Shiv Pratap Shukla in Gorakhpur and his colleague Santosh Gangwar at Jia Nagla in Bareilly and state Industries Minister Satish Mahana will be at Fafuapur, Kanpur.
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Pakistan reports two more polio cases; Total tally now 52
ISLAMABAD: At least two more cases of poliovirus were reported in Pakistan, taking the number of infections to 52 so far this year, a report said on Friday.
“The Regional Reference Laboratory for Polio Eradication at the National Institute of Health has confirmed the detection of two more wild poliovirus type 1 (WPV1) cases in Pakistan," an official statement said.
The fresh infections — a boy and a girl — were reported from the Dera Ismail Khan district of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province.
“Genetic sequencing of the samples collected from the children is underway," the statement read. Dera Ismail Khan, one of the seven polio-endemic districts of southern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, has reported five polio cases so far this year.
Of the 52 cases in the country this year, 24 are from Balochistan, 13 from Sindh, 13 from Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, and one each from Punjab and Islamabad.
There is no cure for polio. Only multiple doses of the oral polio vaccine and completion of the routine vaccination schedule for all children under the age of five can keep them protected.
