VARANASI: With Union home minister Amit Shah listening intently in the audience, BJP UP election in-charge and Union education minister Dharmendra Pradhan said that "Kashi is a laboratory of civilization and governance instead of being just a political field for the BJP."
Pradhan was interacting with the intelligentsia and business fraternity of Kashi at Nadesar on Monday evening ahead of PM Narendra Modi's visit to the city on March 4 to intensify the party campaign for the last phase of UP polls.