BJP supporter paints himself in saffron colour

ALSO READ BJP names 13 candidates in 5th listing for Gujarat polls Gujarat election is not a BJP-Cong fight: Hardik Patel BJP in the back of my fake resignation letter: Gujarat Cong chief Chidambaram s comment on EC no longer suitable: Gujarat CM JD(U) not to contest election in whole Gujarat span.P-content material div id =div-gpt line-height: 0px; font-size: 0px; As the campaigning for Gujarat Assembly election is on complete swing a Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) supporter has observed a completely unique way to help the celebration by means of dressing up like lord Hanuman and chanting Namo Namo... Shrawan Shah hailing from Bihar s Begusarai turned into visible campaigning for the celebration for the duration of a rally in Gujarat s Kalol on Friday. Shah blanketed in BJP s saffron color turned into additionally visible wearing a dummy lotus (party s election image) hat with Prime Minister Narendra Modi s flagship scheme Swachh Bharat written on it. This is my third election marketing campaign. I have campaigned in Bihar Assam Uttar Pradesh Uttarakhand Rajasthan and now I actually have come to Gujarat. I were campaigning like this given that 2017 Shah http://mem.to/t/g/17oqiT225 who works as a clerk in Bihar s Begusarai District Court instructed ANI.The polling for the first segment of Gujarat polls may be held on Saturday for 89 meeting constituencies such as Saurashtra and South Gujarat.The 2nd phase might be held on December 14 for 93 meeting constituencies whilst counting of the votes can be performed on December 18.The vital elections are being visible as status conflict for BJP which has been ruling the nation for closing 22 years and litmus take a look at for the Congress.(This story has now not been edited via Business Standard staff and is vehicle-generated from a syndicated feed.) By Amulya Ganguli Normally the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) shouldn t have any worries approximately the election outcomes in Gujarat. It is Narendra Modi s home state and the celebration has been in strength there for greater than two many years. Prima facie it should be cakewalk for the BJP not least due to the fact its precept opponent the Congress has been down inside the dumps these kind of years. Nor is there any signal of a revival of its moribund enterprise. Yet the BJP doesn t seem to be relaxed. For one its megastar -- and certainly best powerful -- campaigner the Prime Minister has surely parked himself in Gujarat addressing a huge variety of conferences all around the kingdom. As is apparent it is uncommon for a Prime Minister to spend so much time in a single nation earlier than an election specifically when the opponent is supposed to be weak. If he has though carried out so it approach that he is uncertain about the outcome. For any other the equal sense of insecurity can be discerned in the growing bitterness of his complaint of his primary challenger Rahul Gandhi comparing him with Aurangzeb whilst regarding the lifestyle of dynastic succession inside the Congress even as some others have long gone a step similarly to liken him to Babar the BJP s bete noire from the time of the Ramjanmabhoomi agitation and Allauddin Khilji the birthday celebration s modern-day pet hate. Since linking a person with Mughals/Muslims constitutes the worst form of abuse inside the Hindutva lexicon it appears that for a few reason the would-be Congress president has were given beneath the BJP s pores and skin. The reason behind this vituperative outburst is probably that Rahul is all at once turning out to be the primary politician to pose a serious challenge to the BJP in its putative bailiwick. Over the final two a long time the BJP has had a lot of an clean run in Gujarat and has reputedly become so used to total dominance that the slightest signal of resistance tends to unnerve the celebration. And that too from someone whom the party -- and its myriad trolls in the social media -- have long been deriding as Pappu signifying a teen who turned into anticipated to fall on his face not before lengthy. But now that Rahul is proving to be a exclusive character altogether who can deliver as properly as he receives the BJP is at a loss approximately the way to reply. Not abruptly therefore it's far flashing its old trump card communalism to boost its own morale and rally its supporters. Hence the posters about the struggle being between RAM -- (Vijay) Rupani Amit Shah and Modi -- and HAJ -- Hardik Patel Alpesh Thakor and Jignesh Mewani. Rupani as is known is Gujarat s fairly unprepossessing Chief Minister. The communal undertone of the message is as clean as the distinction which a Union minister as soon as made about the continuing tussle inside the united states being between Ramzade or the kids of the Hindu god Ram and Haramzade or children born out of wedlock. As earlier than in concentrated on the Congress Modi has delved into records to task the birthday celebration as one that has been consistently anti-Gujarat as its failure to make Vallabhbhai Patel and Morarji Desai top ministers showed. Modi has long past even similarly again in time to keep in mind Jawaharlal Nehru s unwillingness to allow any respectable role in a mundane state in the maintenance of the Somnath temple to depict the first Prime Minister as anti-Hindu. There were some missteps at the Congress s part as properly with the famous attorney Kapil Sibal urging the Supreme Court to postpone the judgement on the Ayodhya case till after the following preferred election and former MP Mani Shankar Aiyar the use of the phrase neech or low-born to describe Modi. Aiyar has on account that been suspended from the birthday party but the promptness with which Modi used those bungles to induce the electorate to give the Congress a befitting reply in the poll packing containers suggests how a good deal care has to be taken with the aid of the BJP s fighters to pick out their words. Aiyar had also passed Modi the Aurangzeb jibe via reminding everyone that there has been no democracy whilst the Mughal dynastic successions happened. Arguably the BJP hasn t helped itself with the aid of upfront boasting approximately prevailing 150-plus seats inside the 182-member legislature. Now its worry apparently is that it will be a widespread blow to its hubris and status if the birthday party s very last tally of seats falls short of the projected parent. In that case even its victory will lose some of its lustre. What is greater it is likely to be extensively seemed as the first indication that Modi s magic isn't always as pervasive as the BJP seems to think. If the birthday celebration suffers even a moderate setback in a state which it presumed changed into in its pocket then the end result will ship an unsettling message to subsequent year s meeting elections inside the three BJP-ruled states of Rajasthan Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh wherein the anti-incumbency component may additionally undermine its possibilities. By the same token an increase in the Congress s tally of seats and balloting percentage can have come on the right time for Rahul who might be the brand new party president whilst the effects are out. (Amulya Ganguli is a political analyst. The views expressed are non-public. He can be reached at amulyaganguli@gmail.Com) New Delhi: After a high-voltage polling marketing campaign in Prime Minister Narendra Modi s domestic country balloting commenced at eight am these days for 89 seats of Saurashtra and South Gujarat areas for the first phase of assembly elections begins in Gujarat. The polling ends at five pm. About 2.12 crore voters workout their franchise today in what is being regarded as a two-sided battle among the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party and Congress. The ballot campaign ahead of the first leg of Gujarat election which has 977 candidates inside the fray noticed Prime Minister Narendra Modi addressing a series of public conferences in numerous elements of the country including the fabric and diamond hub Surat.PM Modi this morning appealed the electorate to come out and vote in massive numbers. Rahul Gandhi also tweeted and stated participation of electorate became the soul of democracy . I welcome the young citizens who are exercising their franchise for the first time. I attraction the people of Gujarat to vote in huge numbers and make this birthday party of the democratic festival successful he stated. Gujarat Chief Minister and BJP chief Vijay Rupani reached a polling booth in Rajkot West to solid his vote. Mr Rupani faces a challenger in Congress Indranil Rajyaguru the sitting MLA from Rajkot-East and the richest candidate within the Gujarat election. We are going to win one hundred fifty seats underneath the leadership of PM Modi ji we are facing no boundaries Jitu Vaghani BJP Gujarat Chief and candidate from Bhavnagar said these days as reached a polling sales space to forged his vote.PM Modi attacked Congress and president-to-be Rahul Gandhi numerous instances during his public meetings labelling the grand old party as anti-poor and anti-Gujarat . In a bid to counter the BJP which has been ruling the kingdom for the last 22 years Congress has tied up with the Patidar community led by way of Hardik Patel. Patidars had been disturbing reservation for the network in training and government jobs and Hardik Patl led an agitation to raise those demands in 2015. Ahead of the primary section of the vital election PM Modi addressed approximately 15 rallies whilst Rahul Gandhi spent extra than seven days in Saurashtra and south Gujarat addressing some of public meetings according to PTI. Among the distinguished applicants contesting in the first phase are Chief Minister Vijay Rupani who's contesting from Rajkot (West) and Congress Shaktisinh Gohil (Mandvi) and Paresh Dhanani (Amreli).The 2d phase of Gujarat elections is scheduled for December 14 and outcomes will be declared on December 18. (With PTI inputs) Two days earlier than the Assembly elections in Surat posters asking Muslims in Gujarat to vote for Congress leader Ahmed Patel to make him chief minister have been seen throughout the metropolis IANS suggested. The first of the 2-phase elections in the nation is on Saturday. The posters have a picture of Patel with Rahul Gandhi and the Congress poll image with an attraction to the Muslim community in Gujarati. To preserve unity within the Muslim network and to make Ahmed Patel the wazir-e-alam grand minister of Gujarat we request the Muslim network to vote handiest for the Congress the poster reads. Patel a Rajya Sabha MP and an aide of Congress President Sonia Gandhi stated he and his celebration had nothing to do with the posters and blamed the Bharatiya Janata Party for polarising the elections. The moot issue is that the BJP is making an attempt very very hard to divert the narrative from its overall performance of closing 22 years to a divisive schedule Patel stated on Twitter. Hence their reliance on lies and propaganda. But the human beings of Gujarat have made up their thoughts this time. In a sequence of tweets Patel blamed the BJP for putting up fake posters that he said confirmed the utter desperation of the birthday celebration. I have never ever been a candidate for the CM and will in no way ever be he said.Putting up fake posters and orchestrating a rumour campaign shows the utter desperation of the BJP. Fearing defeat do they ought to rely upon such grimy tricks? I actually have never ever been a candidate for CM and could by no means ever be Ahmed Patel (@ahmedpatel) December 7 2017 The moot trouble is that BJP is making an attempt very very tough to divert the narrative from its performance of last 22 years to a divisive schedule. Hence their reliance on lies