Lucknow: BJP national president Nitin Nabin on Sunday interacted with the city’s artists, litterateurs and cultural activists at the residence of noted litterateur and Padma Shri awardee Vidya Bindu Singh, underscoring the party’s outreach to the cultural community.Among those present were BJP state president Pankaj Chaudhary, state vice-president Neeraj Singh and Lucknow metropolitan president Anand Dwivedi.Nabin felicitated several distinguished personalities, including Vidya Bindu Singh, folk singer Malini Awasthi, senior litterateur and Sangeet Natak Akademi awardee Atma Prakash Mishra, litterateur and cultural activist Bharti Singh, former UP DGP Vijay Kumar, dancer and former UP Sangeet Natak Akademi chairperson Prof Purnima Pandey, and former Lucknow University professor AN Singh.Vidya Bindu Singh welcomed Nabin in traditional Lucknow style and served him the city’s famed ‘dahi-jalebi’.During the interaction, Nabin distributed a booklet titled ‘Good Governance, Development and Trust’, brought out to mark the completion of 12 years of the Narendra Modi govt. He said the Centre prioritised public service, good governance, welfare of the poor and nation-building over the past 12 years.Later, Nabin visited the residence of Shivaji Rawat, a BJP booth president in the Lucknow West Assembly constituency, to greet him on his birthday.Calling it part of the BJP’s organisational culture, Nabin said party leaders remained actively connected with workers at the grassroots. Referring to Rawat, he said the booth president not only celebrated his birthday but also received a house under the Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana.“Development reaches the last person in the queue, and the organisation works by connecting with that very individual,” Nabin said.
