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| Gets in Anurag Thakur for Jammu, Shahnawaz Hussain for Kashmir | | BJP plays smart on star campaigners! | | Early Times Report
jammu, Dec 12: The ruling Bharaitya Janta Party at the center seems to be in no mood to give up on the District Development Council elections in Jammu and Kashmir as the right wing party is playing smartly in both the regions during the ongoing campaigning.
While the BJP has sent its senior leader and former Union Minister, Syed Shahnawaz Hussain for campaigning in Kashmir, Member Parliament Anuraj Thakur who is known for his fiery speeches against Shaheen Bagh protests in particular, is party's main face for Jammu.
Observers say till now Shahnawaz and Thakur remained star campaigners for the BJP in the twin regions of the Union Territory for the DDC elections.
While Thakur launched scathing attack on the Gupkar alliance in general and the Abdullahs and the Muftis in particular, he has largely been trying to woo voters through the traditional nationalist sentiment in Jammu.
As about Kashmir, the BJP has been mainly focusing on the slogan on vikas or development.
While Shahnawaz mainly focused on promise of development, peace and prosperity in the Kashmir, Anurag laid more of emphasis on nationalist sentiment to keep the Gupkar alliance at a bay in the winter capital region.
What is even interesting is that both the leaders are attracting huge crowds to their rallies in their respective regions.
Sources said the BJP wants to emerge as a winner without playing any "communal card" in the elections lest voters in any of the regions feel offended.
"Jammu and Kashmir is a place where two regions behave differently so they BJP has brought in such faces who have their own face value for the respective regions and this card seems to have played well," said a political observer.
It is pertinent to mention that the BJP has succeeded in making inroads in the Kashmir region in particular, which till a year ago, was seen to be harboring separatist sentiment.
After the abrogation of the Article 370, however, the party has defeated the separatist sentiment in such a way that the BJP held a Tonga rally in Syed Ali Geelani's native Sopore on December 2.
"BJP has played smartly in elections as the party eyes to win seats even in Kashmir." |
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