Shah, who is on a two-day visit to Uttar Pradesh, met BJP workers and members of its social media team here, attended by Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath, his deputy Dinesh Sharma, state BJP chief Mahendra Nath Pandey, and Ministers and other leaders.
The Bharatiya Janata Party chief also exhorted them to ensure that the vote share of the party went up in the 2019 polls.
"The party President gave us tips on micro-management of elections and ways to ensure that the unholy and opportunistic of the SP and BSP is exposed before the voters," a senior party functionary present at the meeting told IANS.
Party office-bearers were closeted with the BJP chief, who is credited with BJP success in Uttar Pradesh, first in the 2014 Lok Sabha elections and then in 2017 Assembly elections.
The BJP won 71 of the 80 Lok Sabha seats in the 2014 general elections and 312 of the 403 Assembly seats in 2017.
Shah had visited Mirzapur and Varanasi on Tuesday where he interacted with the party's social media teams and other party leaders.
--IANS<br>md/tsb/vm
‘Ministers, MLAs farming for FB challenge will inspire real farmers’
Naik at a press conference held at the BJP state headquarters in Panaji, also expressed support for Prime Minister Narendra Modi-led government's decision on Wednesday to increase the minimum support price (MSP) for kharif crops.
"It is a good thing that ministers are stepping out in the fields. Farmers will get inspired by this", Naik said, as a Facebook farming challenge has gone viral in the coastal state, with ministers as well as MLAs posing for the camera while ploughing, planting paddy saplings, and indulging in other farm activities.
"Everyone should step out in the field, not just ministers. Our health has deteriorated because we do not step into our farms. Body toxins are released through the sweat but now we do not indulge in such work. You go back 25 years in time, you will not see the diseases we face today. People would regularly work, even hospital OPDs were not overcrowded," Naik said.
Praising the Central government for raising the MSP on 14 kharif crops by an average of 50 per cent, Naik who is a former Union Minister of State for Agriculture said: "The Prime Minister in the last election had promised to double the earnings of farmers by 2022. The increase in MSP is a step in that direction. Therefore the farmers in the country are happy. In the last four years, several decisions have been taken for the welfare of farmers."
--IANS<br>maya/mag/vm