India

Amit Shah to knock on voters' doors

PNS

BJP’s national president Amit Shah to kick-off door-to-door campaign — Gujarat Gaurav Mahsampark Abhiyan (GGMA) — from Naranpura Assembly constituency in Ahmedabad on Tuesday in view of upcoming assembly polls in his home State slated on December 9-14.

BJP spokesman for the ensuing Assembly polls IK Jadeja said the party would contest the elections on development agenda and the BJP workers, including senior Gujarat BJP leaders, would go door-to-door with the message of development work done by us.

Shah will kick-start GGMA from his former Assembly constituency Naranpura in Ahmedabad on Tuesday morning and meet people there. After elected as Member of Rajya Sabha couple of months back, the BJP chief had resigned as Naranpura MlA. As part of the campaign, senior BJP leaders including Gujarat Chief Minister Vijay Rupani, Deputy Chief Minister Nitin Patel, Union Ministers including Narendrasingh Tomar, Jitendra Singh, PP Chaudhary, Parshottam Rupala, Jaswantsinh Bhabhor, Mansukh Mandavia, Haribhai Chaudhary, Dharmendra Pradhan, Manoj Tiwari, Manoj Sinha, Tarun Chugh,  Hansraj Ahir, Arjun Meghwal, Nirmala Sitaraman, Smriti Irani, Prakash Javdekar, JP Nadda, VK Singh, and Thavarchand Gehlot will visit different Assembly constituencies across the State as part of the campaign.

Besides, Gujarat BJP chief Jitu Vaghani, Council of Ministers in Vijay Rupani government, senior BJP functionaries in the state and large number of BJP workers will hit the street and spread the message of development. 

“BJP workers will distribute literature featuring development work done by the BJP governments in Gujarat as well as Centre along with Prime Minister’s message to the electors,” said Jadeja.

Meanwhile, Shah who is on visit to his home-state for five days from Saturday travelled across 72 assembly seats of 16 districts. In the next three days he would complete visit of 36 districts across the state, he added.