NRP Desk
Varanasi: Union Home Minister Amit Shah will arrive here on Monday evening to chair the 25th Central Zonal Council, which will be attended by chief ministers of four BJP-ruled states, including Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh.
Over 100 officials from different ministries and departments will also take part in the meeting scheduled on Tuesday This is the first time a non-state capital city has been given the opportunity to host the zonal council meeting. Uttar Pradesh hosted the last CZC meet in Lucknow in 2018. Shah will chair the meeting to discuss various development sectors, including security, infrastructure, power, forest and environment, education, food security tourism and transport. A broad range of objectives and matters related to these sectors will be deliberated upon during the meeting. On reaching the city, Shah will receive a rousing welcome amidst showering of flower petals, beats of damru and blowing of conch shells. BJP workers will express gratitude to Shah for giving Kas hi the opportunity to hold the CZC meet, highlighting his achievements on the fronts of internal security and the Naxalite menace. Overseeing preparations for the CZC meet, district magistrate Satyendra Ku mar on Sunday said that the series of arrivals of VIPs, including UP Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath, and his counter parts Uttarakhand CM Pushkar Singh Dhami, Madhya Pradesh CM Mohan Ya day and Chhattisgarh CM Vishnu Deo Sai will start after 3 pm on Monday, while Shah is expected to arrive in the evening. He said over 100 senior officers from diffe rent ministries and departments will al so arrive on Monday All the arrangements for VIPs, including their movement in the city and night stay have been
finalised.
