Amit Shah holding zone wise meetings of BJP in Gujarat while public campaign is on halt due to Diwali

Gandhinagar: While public campaign programmes are on halt during the festival of Diwali, the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in Gujarat is utilizing festive days to further strengthen its organization ahead of the State assembly elections that are likely to be held in the first week of December this year.

Union Home Affairs minister Amitbhai Shah who headed the previous State assembly election campaign in year 2017 as party’s national president is on visit to Gujarat for interaction and deliberation with Gujarat BJP’s top brass of each zone. In each of such zone-wise meetings that continue for roughly over five hours, State Chief Minister Bhupendra Patel, State party chief CR Patil and State party general secretary (Organization) Ratnakar also remain present along with Amit Shah.

Shah started his tour from Valsad on 22nd October where he interacted with party leaders from Southern Gujarat districts. Shah held similar meeting for Central Gujarat region in Vadodara on 23rd October. On 24th October Shah held similar party event in Palanpur, covering Kutch and North Gujarat region. Shah is scheduled to hold a similar meeting in Prabhas Patan – Somnath on Tuesday, 25th October to cover the Saurashtra zone.

Speaking to media persons in Valsad, Shah had said that preparations, right from micro planning, election and booth management to victory processions are done in such meetings. In the pre-Diwali phase of campaign, the party held five Gaurav Yatras across the State. Prime Minister Narendrabhai Modi also addressed two massive party meetings at Anand in central Gujarat and Jamkandorna in Saurashtra region. The next phase of the campaign will start with Gujarati new year get-together programmes and morcha wise gatherings covering several assembly seats in urban Gujarat areas where Gaurav Yatra had not reached. Party observers are going to start the process of candidate selection from 27 October. The Election Commission will declare the model code of conduct in the next one week or so, after which a massive party campaign will start across the State for over a month long period. DeshGujarat