BJP launches Lok Sabha campaign in Gujarat with Kamal Vijay Yatra

The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), Gujarat unit today launched its campaign for the 2009 Lok Sabha elections under the leadership of the state party president Purshottam Rupala from Ambaji. At 10 am, BJP started the campaign named as “Kamal Vijay Yatra,” led by Purushottam Rupala for seven days.

Rupala will visit 12 tribal districts of eastern Gujarat, on an average covering a distance of 200 km every day. He will come in direct contact with the electorate in these areas and the party candidates of these constituencies along with the local leaders who will join him on the route.

Meanwhile, central election offices in these places have been put up, and different leaders of the party have been assigned campaign work for different areas during this period, they said.

During the yatra, public meetings are being held at Hadad, Khedbrahma, Antarsumba, Vijaynagar, Chithoda, Bhiloda, Shamlaji and Meghraj on the first day.

The Yatra will move in the districts of Sabarkantha (March 25), Godhra-Dahod (March 26), Vadodara and Narmada (March 28), Bharuch and Narmada (March 29), Tapi and Surat (March 30), Surat, Dang and Navsari (March 31) and Valsad and Surat (April 1).

There will be no meetings elsewhere on March 27 as the party’s Prime Ministerial candidate L K Advani is to launch the party’s campaign from the Football Ground at Kankaria on that day.

For complete schedule of Purushottam Rupala’s Kamal Yatra Click here(pdf file)