Delhi, 6 February 2012

When reporters asked party veteran Murli Manohar Joshi about absence of “Star” campaigners of the party in campaign in Uttar Pradesh, Shri reportedly Joshi replied: “When we have Sun(suraj) and Moon(Chanda) campaigning, who cares for Stars (sitare)!”

Section of media is seeing this as a dig at Narendra Modi who is so far absent in the UP assembly poll campaign. In Uttar Pradesh the first phase of campaign ends today.

Shri Modi didn’t address a single campaign rally in Punjab and Uttarakhand assembly elections too in recent past.

Modi will be busy with Sadbhavana fast today in Bardoli, he will be in Bavla for Sadbhavana fast tomorrow, on 8th he will chair a cabinet meeting, on 9th he will be in Sidsar(Jamnagar district) in Patidar community function, on 10th he will be in Palitana in Sadbhavana fast programme, on 12th he will be in Ambaji for Sadbhavana mission fast.

As the second phase campaign is going to end on 9th of this month, it is certain that Modi would skip the second phase campaign of UP poll too. But there are five more phase remaining, and considering all of them, the entire UP campaign will actually end on 1 March. Even the state of Goa is witnessing assembly poll on 3 March and its campaign too ends on 1 March.

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