BJP’s star campaigner Yogi to address over 30 rallies across Karnataka

Bengaluru, Apr 25: Yogi Adityanath, the chief minister of Uttar Pradesh and BJP’s start campaigner for May 12 Karnataka polls, is expected to address over 30 public rallies across the poll-bound states in May first and second weeks.

In all, the hardline Hindutva leader will be spending six days in Karnataka. ‘’Adityanath will be hitting the campaign trail on May 3...he will return to Lucknow on May 4.....he will again be visiting the state on May 7 and spend four days there,’’ a senior BJP leader said here on Tuesday.

Adityanath would be addressing four to five rallies in a day, he added.

The BJP leader said that Adityanath had a large number of followers in the southern state as there were disciples of the Nath sect, to which he belonged.

It was earlier apprehended that Adityanath’s demand in Karnataka would decrease following the BJP’s humiliating defeat in the recently held Lok Sabha by-polls in Gorakhpur, his home town, and Phulpur.

BJP leaders here admitted that the chief minister would have spent more time in Karnataka had the results of the two Lok Sabha by-polls had gone in favour of the saffron party.

Adityanath on Tuesday expressed confidence that the BJP would form government in Karnataka. ‘’We are going to win in Karnataka....the Congress will be wiped out,’’ he said in an informal chat with reporters while being on a visit to Sultanpur district, about 150 kilometres from here.