Nitin Nabin will take to the streets for the first time since becoming BJP chief, launching the party’s counter-campaign against opposition allegations regarding the special Intensive Revision, or SIR, of electoral rolls.
The BJP has mobilised to respond to the aggressive campaign led by the Congress and the broader opposition bloc INDIA regarding the SIR. Nitin Nabin has personally taken charge of this effort. Rahul Gandhi, have spearheaded the opposition’s offensive regarding the SIR, Nitin Nabin will lead the BJP counter While Congress chief Mallikarjun Kharge and Leader of the Opposition in the Lok Sabha. He has been engaging directly with the younger generation through ‘Youth Dialogue’ (Yuva Samvad) programs across various parts of the country, during which he has sharply criticised the Congress’s campaign regarding the SIR. However, this marks the first time he will directly take to the streets to address these allegations through a padyatra. Ahead of this megarally, the INDIA alliance also plans to hold a ‘mock parliament’ on October 30th, where a resolution will be passed calling for the removal of Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar.
Nitin Nabin’s padyatra is taking place just before a massive public rally organised by the INDIA alliance, scheduled for November 1 at Delhi’s Ramlila Maidan – an event for which the alliance has set a target of gathering one million people.
In Uttar Pradesh, a key Hindi heartland state, the BJP will be aiming for a ‘hat-trick’ of electoral victories. There, its primary challenge will come from an alliance between the Samajwadi Party and the Congress, both of which are aggressively raising concerns regarding the SIR process and alleged ‘vote theft. As part of this extensive campaign, press conferences are being held at the national, state, and district levels to provide information about the key themes and scheduled events of the initiative. Meetings with prominent citizens are also being organised. These interactions will feature in-depth discussions and Q&A sessions covering topics such as the electoral roll (voter list) accuracy, the election process, and various constitutional issues. The coordination for this has been assigned to Biplab Kumar Deb, Satish Poonia, Smriti Irani, Piyush Goyal, Kiren Rijiju, Rohan Gupta, and Anil Antony.
Each such meeting, held in every assembly constituency, will involve approximately 200 distinguished and invited citizens.
