Overview
- An official statement says the Prime Minister will open the complex and address a public gathering at about 2:30 pm on Thursday in Lucknow.
- The 65‑acre, lotus‑shaped site built for roughly Rs 230 crore features 65‑foot bronze statues of Atal Bihari Vajpayee, Syama Prasad Mookerjee and Deendayal Upadhyaya, plus a two‑storey museum, amphitheatre for 3,000 and a rally ground for over 200,000.
- Security and logistics are in place with the SPG taking over the campus and the UP BJP working to fill the grounds, having issued invitations reportedly near 2 lakh.
- Statewide programmes include constituency‑level ‘Atal Smriti Sammelans’, cleanliness drives and participation in electoral roll revision, with UP BJP chief Pankaj Chaudhary setting sights on outperforming 2017 in the 2027 assembly polls.
- Parallel tributes are underway nationally, with Amit Shah unveiling a 41‑foot Vajpayee statue in Panchkula on Dec. 24, a Madhya Pradesh summit featuring Shah on Dec. 25, and an Amaravati statue inauguration planned with N. Chandrababu Naidu and Shivraj Singh Chouhan.