Former BJP president Rajnath Singh will hold a padyatra in the state capital tomorrow to appeal to the traders to support the party’s ‘Bharat Bandh’ on September 20. According to party sources, Mr Singh along with BJP Lucknow Lok Sabha MP Lalji Tandon will hold padyatra in Aminabad area tomorrow evening. During the the padyatra, the BJP leaders would ask the traders to keep their shutters down during the Bharat bandh. The BJP leaders here have welcomed the decision of AITC leader Mamata Banerjee to withdraw support from the UPA-11. The party has asked the Samajwadi Party (SP) and the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) to follow the decision of the AITC so that the anti-people government does not survive.
—UNI