SEPT 17- Tuesday will mark an important day for BJP as it is Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi’s 63rd birthday. The day is lined up with events that would grace Modi in a pompous way and he will greet not just the party members but also his mother who he has not met after being anointed as BJP ‘s PM candidate.
The BJP’s newly elected PM candidate will first seek blessings from his mother Hira Ba on on his birthday. And then he will visit Jamalpur, and old Ahmedabad Muslim dominated area, where more than 100 muslims will cut 64kg cake for celebrating Modi’s birthday.
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Buoyed by Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi’s naming as BJP’s prime ministerial candidate, the party’s state unit is also set to launch a massive membership drive to mark the day.
BJP spokesperson, I.K. Jadeja said on Monday “We are launching a massive drive to enrol 1 lakh people through each of our cells starting tomorrow, on Modi’s birthday.”
Gujarat BJP minority cell is also planning to run a drive to woo Muslims on the occassion.
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President of Laghuumati Morcha Mehboob Ali Chisti said “This drive is a gift from our side to Modiji… in Gujarat more than 245 corporators from the community have been victorious…in no other regime was the development of the community on this scale.”
While the BJP is all set to give a super kickstart to mark Gujarat CM’s birthday, the Opposition has not left any opportunity to slam the party of trying to turn the birthday into a political gimmick.
GPCC chief Arjun Modhwadia said “Modi had promised a Rs.15,000 crore ‘van bandhu’ package for tribals, Rs.11,000 crore ‘sagar khedu’ package for fishermen and Rs.50,000 crore for development of various districts during his Sadbhavna fasts in 2011. Sadbhavna should come from the heart, not just in words if he (Modi) had followed the raj dharma as advised by the then prime minister AB Vajpayee in 2002, there would have been no need to carry out such political gimmicks.”
Tarun Gogoi also slammed Modi saying “The day he asked Muslims to come clad in burqa and skull cap, he started his appeasement politics.”
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