BJP chief Amit Shah and union minister Smriti Irani will visit the Congress bastion Amethi

BJP chief Amit Shah and union minister Smriti Irani will visit the Congress bastion Amethi, three days after Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi went there. While Ms Irani will reach Amethi today, Mr Shah will arrive tomorrow, the district administration said in a statement. Both are likely to announce a number of schemes at Amethi, which also happens to be Rahul Gandhi's parliamentary constituency.

Ms Irani is likely to attend the launch of a radio station at Gauriganj, a project for cleaning the Gomti river near Pipri village, and will inaugurate a tuberculosis unit at the district hospital



and a primary health centre at Odari Tiloi.

She will then visit a unit of the Steel Authority of India in Jagdishpur, an industrial area in Amethi.

In this year's Uttar Pradesh assembly elections, the BJP took six of the 10 seats that come under the parliamentary constituencies of Amethi and Rae Bareli. Four of them were in Amethi.

The two top BJP leaders are coming to Amethi to show that the party does not believe in step-motherly treatment to areas where the BJP has failed to make its mark, people in the BJP who are familiar with the matter said.