Pan-India summer roadshow

The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) flagged off a series of events across the country starting April 6, its foundation day. The events will continue till April 14, the birth anniversary of the architect of the Constitution, B R Ambedkar. Senior ministers have been asked to fan out across India to address public meetings and press conferences. The effort is to propagate the Narendra Modi government’s “pro-poor” policies. The focus will be on three states — Himachal Pradesh, Gujarat and Karnataka — which are going to the polls in the next 18 months, as also on the Lok Sabha seats the