If Ram Madhav, BJP general secretary, is to be believed that BJP leadership may blow the bugle of 2019 Lok Sabha elections and in this connection Prime Minister, Narendra Modi is expected to announce the Poll schedule by addressing a meeting at Jammu. By framing a coalition Government with the PDP, the BJP has lost its vote bank in Jammu region where from 2014 the party had secured 25 seats in the Assembly. This way Modi has a plan to blow the poll bugle from Jammu in order to woo voters for the BJP
Modi would blow the bugle for the Assembly and Parliamentary polls from Jammu on February 3, the rightwing Bharatiya Janta Party (BJP) national general secretary Ram Madhav has said.
Madhav, who was in Jammu, chaired a meeting of BJP workers ahead of Modi's scheduled visit to the State on February 3.
Modi would inaugurate and lay foundation stone of developmental works worth Rs 44,000 crore including Rs 35,000 crores projects in Jammu and Rs 9000 crore projects in Kashmir valley.
Madhav has said BJP was ready for Assembly and Parliamentary polls in Jammu Kashmir and indirectly targeted the party's former alliance partners Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). "BJP is ready to contest polls anytime but in Jammu Kashmir, a political party does not want polls as they think they will sink if elections are held on time," he said indirectly referring to PDP. He said Modi would kick-start election campaign for Assembly polls in the State as well as Lok Sabha polls from Jammu on February 3. Madhav said the Election Commission of India would decide when to hold polls but BJP was ready to contest elections anytime. He demanded division status for Ladakh and reservation for Pahari-speaking people.
After holding meeting with the State unit of BJP, addressing media persons Madhav said Modi would inaugurate projects taken up by the BJP ministers when they were in the government with PDP.
"The project couldn't be started on time even as BJP ministers worked for it and had hurdles not been created by PDP, the foundation stone of these projects would have been laid earlier," he said. "In Jammu, PM will address a huge rally. However, he said the rightwing party would field its candidates on all assembly seats and not enter into a pre-poll alliance with any political party. |
