Election 2014: Gujaratis to campaign for Narendra Modi in Varanasi
Professionals from Gujarat have started working out the modalities of Modi's campaign
Lucknow: BJP’s prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi is apparently not too confident of the capabilities of his party workers in Uttar Pradesh and has decided to send teams from Gujarat to supervise his campaign in Varanasi.
Though Mr Modi has not yet visited Varanasi after his candidature was announced from the holy city, teams of professional from Gujarat have started working out the modalities of the campaign.
“We will be bringing groups from various walks of life to Varanasi so that they can tell the people about the facilities that are available to them in Mr Modi’s state. Groups of housewives and working women will come here to interact with women and issues like safety of women, facilities for working women, opportunities,” said a member of “Team Modi”.
Several groups of IT professional and young graduates will also come from Gujarat to visit colleges and professional institutes and tell the young voters about career opportunities that have been developed in Gujarat. Similarly farmers will be brought here to relate their success stories.
Most importantly, Mr Modi’s team plans to bring in those migrant laborers belonging to Uttar Pradesh but working in Gujarat. These laborers will be sent to their villages in the Varanasi constituency where they will be asked to relate the good conditions they work in and the kind of cheap facilities that are available to them.
“The idea is to inform the people that even migrant laborers in Gujarat get to lead a better life than the ones in Uttar Pradesh. These groups will arrive here on different dates, meet and interact with the target groups and then return to Gujarat. This will be done alongside the usual rallies and meetings by BJP workers,” the source said.
This parallel campaign management by “Team Modi” in Varanasi has obviously ruffled some feathers in the local unit of the BJP that was hoping to get the responsibility of poll management.
“We are feeling left out because the entire campaign management is being done by this time. We have never seen this kind of thing before and party workers are upset,” said a local party leader.