Senior Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader and Public Relations Minister of the State Rajendra Shukla claimed on Sunday that the Maihar Assembly by-election campaigning has become development-centric.
Shukla was addressing corner meetings in Maihar assembly constituency that would go for by-poll on February 13. “BJP is out to make this region developed by exploring all the capacities of the region while the opposition Congress has been limited to caste politics. Whereas the people of the country are not at all interested in the politics of caste and want only development” said Shukla.
Shukla further said that during the past twelve years rule of BJP in the state; Madhya Pradesh has been freed from the blot of being a BIMARU state and has become a developed state.
Meanwhile, BJP state vice president Ajay Pratap Singh in a statement here on Sunday said that state secretary and Satna MP Ganesh Singh, senior ministers of state cabinet Rampal Singh and lal Singh Arya, state minorities cell president Hidayatullah Sheikh, MlA and state spokesman Vishwas Sarang and other senior leaders of the state are also taking corner meetings and going door to door to seek votes and calling on the people to make party candidate Narayan Tripathi victorious.
Another state vice president Manoranjan Mishra told that the youth groups are knocking doors of the electorate in the constituency and seeking votes for the party candidate. While women conventions are also going on in that women leaders of the party are seeking votes for the party candidate.