Yogi adityanath

Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath has reached Kerala to join the BJP's Jana Raksha Yatra (or March for People's Protection), a day after party president Amit Shah launched its ambitious march from Kerala's Payyannur in Kannur district.Â
The march, a show of strength by the BJP and the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), will pass through 11 of the 14 districts in Kerala and end in capital Thiruvananthapuram on October 17, when Shah is expected to be present again.
"Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath ji to lead the Jan Raksha Yatra tomorrow (Wednesday) from Kechery to Kannur," the Kerala unit of Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) said in a tweet.

Apart from Yogi, senior Union ministers, including Home Minister Rajnath Singh and the chief ministers of BJP-ruled states, will also join and address the Yatra.

The BJP, which has just one member in the 140-seat Kerala Assembly, is highlighting the issue of political killings of BJP and RSS workers through the Yatra.

While inaugurating the Yatra, Shah launched a scathing attack on Kerala's ruling LDF, saying Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan was to blame for the murders of BJP and RSS workers in the state.

"More than 84 BJP and RSS workers have been killed in the district alone. I want to ask Pinarayi Vijayan... Who has killed them? If he does not have answers, then I am saying that the chief minister is responsible for the killings," he said.

An aggressive Shah claimed that as many as 120 BJP and RSS workers had been murdered in Kerala since 2001. "Communists have destroyed a peaceful Kerala, more than 120 BJP and RSS karyakartas have been murdered in Kerala so far," Shah alleged.

I want to tell CM Pinarayi Vijayan that the more they try to muddy the political environment, more the lotus will bloom in Kerala," the BJP president said.

The Delhi unit of BJP will also take out a Jana Raksha Yatra in the national capital from today to protest the brutal murder of party workers in Kerala which will continue till October 16.9. The ruling CPM has, in turn, accused the BJP and its ideological mentor, the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), of resorting to violence and denied the involvement of its government and leadership in the political killings.

he BJP is working overtime to become a potent force in the state by the 2019 Lok Sabha polls. It had garnered 10 per cent and 15 per cent votes respectively in 2014 Lok Sabha and 2016 Assembly polls. With the Congress, the main opposition party in the state, and the Left, maintaining a coordination against the BJP in politics at the national lever, the saffron party believes that it can occupy the opposition space in Kerala and build on its gains to become a major force by the next Lok Sabha polls.