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NEW DELHI, JAN 31: Within two days after dropping him from the all-powerful parliamentary board of the party, the BJP on Wednesday has sent a signal that Gujarat chief minister Narendra Modi is an important factor in their campaign trail. Modi would be visiting both important election bound-states of Punjab and Uttrakhand. But the move to use Modi for canvassing drew flak in Punjab.
BJP vice-president and in-charge of central election committee Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi told reporters that Modi, the party’s Hindutva icon, would tour both the poll-bound states for canvassing.
Former prime minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee, he said, would address public meetings in both the states ahead of the Assembly elections, and on an equal footing, senior leader of the party LK Advani will also be visiting both the states. Criticising the move to field Modi in the campaign trail, hard-line leader of a Akali faction Simranjit Singh Mann is quoted to have said that his party would hold statewide protests against Modi’s visit because of allegations for his partisan role in dealing with the Gujarat riots.
Interestingly, even a section of Badal’s SAD is also feeling unease over BJP’s plans to use Modi in Punjab for campaign. |
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