At 12:30 pm on Saturday, BJP president Amit Shah arrived at Kakori on the outskirts of Lucknow to shouts of "Bharat mata ki jai", and thousands of BJP flags.
Amit Shah's visit was part of a nationwide event by the BJP called "Azadi 70 - Yaad Karo Kurbani", a precursor to the party's much hyped "Tiranga Yatra" that will begin from August 16, with party lawmakers and legislators taking the Tricolour to their constituencies, riding two wheelers.
His first stop - the 'temple', or memorial built at Kakori to honour the revolutionaries who robbed train carrying money for the British treasury in 1925. Mr Shah garlanded the statues of all the freedom fighters in the temple, including Chandrashekhar Azad, Ashfaqullah Khan, Ram Prasad Bismil.
At a public meeting after the event, Amit Shah began his speech by saying he "would not talk politics", but the temptation, perhaps, was too hard to resist.
Taking a dig at the Congress, he said, "No development was done in the country since Independence as the government was run by one family for 60 years. Without development of UP, country's development is not possible."
Later in the day, Mr Shah also had lunch at the BJP MP Kaushal Kishore's house, who is from dalit community.
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