After Uttar Pradesh chief minister Yogi Adityanath, his Madhya Pradeshcounterpart Shivraj Singh Chouhan is planning to join BJP president Amit Shah’s Jana Raksha Yatra in Keralaon October 10.
Chouhan is likely to join the yatra from Palakkad near Coimbatore.
The yatra from Payyannur will pass through Kerala before culminating in Thiruvananthapuram on October 17.
Several Union ministers and chief ministers of BJP-ruled states are participating in the march under the theme – “all have to live against Jihadi-Red Terror.”
Chouhan will participate in a vehicle rally in Palakkad at 10am. He will also address a public meeting in Wadakkanchery the same morning before joining padyatra (foot march) with the party chief.
The yatra is being organised from Mannuthy to Thrissur where Chouhan will address another public meeting at around 5.30pm before leaving from Bhopal, said an official communique.
Sources in the BJP revealed that Chouhan has been provide high security in Kerala in view of the protests staged against Kerala chief minister Pinarayi Vijayan in December 2016.
Vijayan, who had arrived in Bhopal on December 11 to attend a felicitation function organised by United Malyalee Association at School of Social Sciences, had to skip the event after Bajarang Dal activists launched an agitation ahead of his visit.
The Bajarang Dal activists were protesting killings of RSS and saffron group members in Kerala.
Sources said police have made adequate security arrangements during Chouhan’s visit in view of the incident.
