Gujarat Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Bharat Pandya on Monday, February 18 reportedly asked party workers to extract electoral mileage from the “nationalistic wave” in the country that has followed the terror attack that killed 40 CRPF jawans in Jammu and Kashmir’s Pulwama.
Per a report in the Indian Express, the BJP spokesperson urged party workers to turn the nationalistic waves into votes. Pandya was speaking at a booth-level meeting in Vadodara.
“Numerous actions have been taken in the wake of the (Pulwama) attack. Citizens of the country are awake late in the night to see what actions are being taken against Pakistan. This is the sentiment in the country right now,” Pandya reportedly said, adding that “The entire nation has stood together in unity with the feeling of nationalism and it is our responsibility to convert this unity into a united vote,” reported IE.
BJP is reportedly organising booth-level meetings across the state ahead of the upcoming Lok Sabha elections.
On Saturday, party president Amit Shah had come under fire for doing politics over the killings of the CRPF jawans in Pulwama. He had taken a dig at the Opposition while talking about the Pulwama tragedy in Assam.
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