Union Ministers Asked to Visit Valley, Woo Voters

SRINAGAR: Bharatiya Janata Party, the ruling party of India, has set in motion a multi-pronged strategy to garner support in the state, ahead of assembly poll due by this fall. Prime Minister Narendra Modi, sources disclosed, is personally monitoring the political outreach plans in important states including Jammu and Kashmir.

Reports suggest that the top BJP leadership will arrive in valley in the month of August and the poll strategy with its state unit shall be threadbare discussed.

Sources privy to this development said the BJP high command has this time decided to concentrate more on valley as the Jammu now was being considered as the bastion for the party. During the recently held paarliament poll the party had swept both seats of the region. Sources have stated further that BJP has directed its senior cadre that during the campaigning for the LA polls, a major chunk of the minister must visit valley one by one to support the party candidates in the region.

Quoting unconfirmed reports, KNS Tuesday reported that the party was eying at least three seats during the assembly elections in valley with the party focusing areas of North and Central Kashmir.

Pertinently, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on June 30 met BJP general secretaries and discussed organizational matters as also measures to strengthen the party ahead of assembly elections in some key states.

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Modi spent over an hour with the ten party general secretaries seeking suggestions from them on improving governance and strengthening the party. This was Modis first meet of such nature after he took charge as Prime Minister. Reports maintained that Prime Minister also asked the party leaders to prepare for assembly elections in Jammu and Kashmir, Maharashtra and Haryana Jharkhand and Bihar.

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