Ahmedabad: The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), Congress and Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) are campaigning in full swing in poll-bound Gujarat to woo voters. The ruling BJP has gone into the campaign with its big guns, with Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Union Home Minister Amit Shah, party president JP Nadda and Chief Minister Bhupendra Patel holding back-to-back rallies and roadshows across the state.
Shah attacking Congress Told During a public meeting in Ahmedabad on Friday: “Congress is talking about peace, does it suit them? For years, he ruled Gujarat and communal riots were widespread. After coming to power BJP gave such a rule in the state that communal riots completely stopped….in 2002 they tried to instigate it again but BJP took such a step that till 2022 there was no communal riot in the state And curfew was not imposed for a single day.
BJP released it on Saturday manifesto CM Patel for the Gujarat elections, in the presence of Nadda and state BJP chief CR Patil. In this, BJP promised 20 lakh jobs, implementation of Uniform Civil Code (UCC), one lakh government jobs for women, Rs 10,000 crore for agri-marketing infra and scooters for students.
Speaking at the launch event, Nadda said: “For the progress of Gujarat, we will make Gujarat’s economy a Rs 1 trillion economy by making the state a foreign direct investment destination. We will create an anti-radicalization cell and sleeper cells of terrorist organizations and anti-India forces to identify and eliminate potential threats.
Later in the day, CM Bhupendra Patel conducted a 16 km long roadshow from Subhash Chowk to Bodakdev in Ahmedabad.
ThePrint’s National Photo Editor Praveen Jain, who is covering the 2022 assembly elections in Gujarat, brings to you exclusive photographs from the BJP campaign.