Come May 1 and the BJP will be taking everyone on daily conducted tours of what it dubs as a one-of-a-kind expressway under construction. The ``Chalo Expressway'' programme will be open to all, party critics and admirers.

The tour programme has been announced by adman-cum-BJP functionary Vinit Kuber who until recently was engaged in broadening the party base in the Congress stronghold of western Maharashtra.

Having organised a lecture on the lake tapping for the Koyna project -- it too is being projected by the Sena-BJP as a big plus for the State -- Kuber decided it was also time that the alliance played up its expressway achievement. He promptly announced daily conducted tours of the same.

A pamphlet being widely circulated urges parents to show the children ``themagnificent and inspiring works undertaken in this corner of the world''. Admittedly, the expressway work does involve some awesome contribution from both man and machinery, but one can hardly fail to notice that the BJP has chosen to trumpet its ``achievement'' just when the elections are so close.

Confront Kuber with such a query and he readily agrees.``You can say that the alliance has started preparing,'' says the man behind the tour. The month-long ``Chalo Expressway'' programme has been organised in collaboration with the well-known Prasanna Travels.

The State Government's road development corporation, headed by Kuber's friend and mentor PWD minister Nitin Gadkari, the moving spirit behind the 84-km long dream project, has also extended a helping hand to Kuber's scheme.

Kuber is confident that two busloads of visitors everyday from Pune will get the right publicity for the BJP. Specially arranged luxury buses will leave from Kothrud area, take a left at Somatane Phata to reach the expressway andwill go up to Khopoli before turning back for the return journey. That's not all. Each pilgrim -- that is how Kuber describes the visitor -- will plant a sapling along the expressway. All this for only Rs 100 per head, age no bar.