NEW DELHI: Lucknow’s biggest political rally ever, to showcase a big announcement by Prime Minister Narendra Modi — that’s Bharatiya Janata Party’s plan for the much-anticipated January 2 campaign event in poll-bound Uttar Pradesh’s capital.ET spoke to several senior BJP leaders, all of whom spoke off record, for details of the Modi rally on the second day of the New Year. The political buzz is that the prime minister will offer a headline-grabbing policy move aimed at generating feel-good after the 50-day ‘trial’ period of demonetisation gets over on December 30. Modi had asked for the 50-day period at a rally in Goa soon after his November 8 announcement on demonetisation.BJP leaders said they are working towards achieving a “record” attendance for the Lucknow event. The party’s 1.38 lakh booth committees, each of which may have up to 20 cadres, are key to ensuring a huge crowd.One BJP leader said the plan is to ensure attendance by most booth committee workers and ask them to bring small groups of people with them. BJP President Amit Shah has been holding booth-level meetings and the PM ’s rally, another BJP leader said, will “build on that effort”.BJP also plans to rev up its poll machinery in UP in a big way. The party has spent Rs 5 crore — through cheques and bank transfers, party leaders insist — on buying 1,600 motorcycles kitted out with a public address system and a box for storing campaign material. Each rider will be asked to contact 100 people every day. The bikes will supplement 400 GPS-equipped video vans that BJP already has travelling in the state.The number of hoardings statewide is being upped from 2,000 to 3,500, and will cover each of UP’s 402 assembly constituencies. There are 15,000 locations in the state for voters to drop in letters detailing expectations from a new government. BJP has said this voter feedback will inform its election manifesto for UP. A call centre and UP BJP’s Facebook page are among the party’s other outreach efforts.