Assam CM Himanta emerges as BJP’s poster boy for election campaigns

By PTI

GUWAHATI: The BJP’s most distinguished face from the North East, Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma has emerged because the celebration’s new poster boy for election campaigning, capturing eyeballs as its first star campaigner from the area in faraway Gujarat and Delhi.

Be it the revocation of Article 370 in Jammu and Kashmir, imposition of Uniform Civil Code (UCC), PFI ban, Ram Janmabhoomi temple subject, communal angle to the latest killing of a lady by her live-in accomplice or the assault on Congress and his bete noire Rahul Gandhi, Sarma has left no stone unturned to push ahead assertively the right-wing celebration’s key agenda in poll-bound Gujarat the place the BJP has dominated for the final 27 years, barring a short interval of President’s Rule.

Sarma, within the eyes of his supporters, after all, comes with the correct credentials for the function.

The passing of the Cattle Protection Act, calling for particular coverage measures for slowing down minority inhabitants progress, closing down of presidency Madrasas and turning them into common faculties, demolition of madrasas following arrest of lecturers with alleged terror hyperlinks, sealing of the ‘Miya’ (Bengali-speaking Muslims in Assam) musuem, amongst others has introduced him to the fore of polarisation politics, in line with consultants.

The Chief Minister, nonetheless, throughout his marketing campaign path has hit again with questions like “does an Owaisi (Asaduddin Owaisi) alone have the right to polarisation. Do the Hindus not have the right to assert their glorious cultural and civilisational heritage? It is the media who term this as polarisation when Prime Minister Narendra Modi has strived hard to restore our pride in ‘Sanatan Dharma’ which is the soul of our nation”.

He has additionally dismissed the title of ‘star campaigner’ stating he’s “no star but just an ordinary ‘karyakarta’ (worker) of the party and Gujarat leaders also go to Assam during elections”.

Campaigning in Gujarat twice inside per week, Sarma has focussed his assault on his erstwhile celebration – the Congress which he left in 2015 to hitch the BJP, and significantly on Rahul Gandhi who he alleged was extra concerned with feeding biscuits to his canine than in fixing celebration’s issues.

In every of his marketing campaign, both in Gujarat or Delhi, he has attacked the Congress for following ”politics of appeasement” for the advantage of a selected neighborhood and even went on to seek advice from Gandhi resembling Saddam Hussain as a result of beard he has saved in the course of the ongoing ‘Bharat Jodo Yatra’.

Congress chief Kanhaiya Kumar, when requested about Sarma’s steady assault on the Congress and Rahul, stated that he has to ”please his masters for his political survival.

The BJP resorts to polarisation politics at a time when the youth and individuals are speaking about unemployment and value rise”.

Political analyst Paresh Malakar identified that he highlights points core to BJP’s communal agenda however added that the feedback might also be construed as ”irresponsible”.

“Apart from the communal angle, Sarma is trying to mislead and provoke,”, Malakar, additionally the General Secretary of civil society group Assam Nagarik Sabha, advised PTI.

Political analyst Chandan Sarma of Dibrugarh University claimed that it’s well-documented that Sarma has been behind the success of BJP within the North East and that his stature is growing within the nationwide area, too, as he ”boldly articulates the core BJP agenda on numerous points”.

Assam Jatiya Parishad (AJP) General Secretary Jagadish Bhuyan advised PTI that even after being in energy for thus a few years in Gujarat, “The BJP is not talking about development but engaged in communal polarization. Sarma can go to any extent to instigate people.”

Assam Pradesh Congress President Bhupen Bora nonetheless advised PTI that Sarma has been taken to Gujarat to not give speeches however for fund administration.

“The BJP government in the state has looted funds which the party is using for election purpose,” Bora alleged.

The BJP, nonetheless, refutes these allegations with its Rajya Sabha MP Pabitra Margherita asserting the campaigning activity recognises Sarma’s means “to connect with people’s pulse, his practical and viable commitments and its timely implementation which has been noticed not only in the region but also in the rest of the country”.

Besides, BJP encourages and empowers “new generation politicians and gives space to young leaders working for the nation’s development along with preserving ideological ethos,” Margherita stated.

GUWAHATI: The BJP’s most distinguished face from the North East, Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma has emerged because the celebration’s new poster boy for election campaigning, capturing eyeballs as its first star campaigner from the area in faraway Gujarat and Delhi.

Be it the revocation of Article 370 in Jammu and Kashmir, imposition of Uniform Civil Code (UCC), PFI ban, Ram Janmabhoomi temple subject, communal angle to the latest killing of a lady by her live-in accomplice or the assault on Congress and his bete noire Rahul Gandhi, Sarma has left no stone unturned to push ahead assertively the right-wing celebration’s key agenda in poll-bound Gujarat the place the BJP has dominated for the final 27 years, barring a short interval of President’s Rule.

Sarma, within the eyes of his supporters, after all, comes with the correct credentials for the function.

The passing of the Cattle Protection Act, calling for particular coverage measures for slowing down minority inhabitants progress, closing down of presidency Madrasas and turning them into common faculties, demolition of madrasas following arrest of lecturers with alleged terror hyperlinks, sealing of the ‘Miya’ (Bengali-speaking Muslims in Assam) musuem, amongst others has introduced him to the fore of polarisation politics, in line with consultants.

The Chief Minister, nonetheless, throughout his marketing campaign path has hit again with questions like “does an Owaisi (Asaduddin Owaisi) alone have the right to polarisation. Do the Hindus not have the right to assert their glorious cultural and civilisational heritage? It is the media who term this as polarisation when Prime Minister Narendra Modi has strived hard to restore our pride in ‘Sanatan Dharma’ which is the soul of our nation”.

He has additionally dismissed the title of ‘star campaigner’ stating he’s “no star but just an ordinary ‘karyakarta’ (worker) of the party and Gujarat leaders also go to Assam during elections”.

Campaigning in Gujarat twice inside per week, Sarma has focussed his assault on his erstwhile celebration – the Congress which he left in 2015 to hitch the BJP, and significantly on Rahul Gandhi who he alleged was extra concerned with feeding biscuits to his canine than in fixing celebration’s issues.

In every of his marketing campaign, both in Gujarat or Delhi, he has attacked the Congress for following ”politics of appeasement” for the advantage of a selected neighborhood and even went on to seek advice from Gandhi resembling Saddam Hussain as a result of beard he has saved in the course of the ongoing ‘Bharat Jodo Yatra’.

Congress chief Kanhaiya Kumar, when requested about Sarma’s steady assault on the Congress and Rahul, stated that he has to ”please his masters for his political survival.

The BJP resorts to polarisation politics at a time when the youth and individuals are speaking about unemployment and value rise”.

Political analyst Paresh Malakar identified that he highlights points core to BJP’s communal agenda however added that the feedback might also be construed as ”irresponsible”.

“Apart from the communal angle, Sarma is trying to mislead and provoke,”, Malakar, additionally the General Secretary of civil society group Assam Nagarik Sabha, advised PTI.

Political analyst Chandan Sarma of Dibrugarh University claimed that it’s well-documented that Sarma has been behind the success of BJP within the North East and that his stature is growing within the nationwide area, too, as he ”boldly articulates the core BJP agenda on numerous points”.

Assam Jatiya Parishad (AJP) General Secretary Jagadish Bhuyan advised PTI that even after being in energy for thus a few years in Gujarat, “The BJP is not talking about development but engaged in communal polarization. Sarma can go to any extent to instigate people.”

Assam Pradesh Congress President Bhupen Bora nonetheless advised PTI that Sarma has been taken to Gujarat to not give speeches however for fund administration.

“The BJP government in the state has looted funds which the party is using for election purpose,” Bora alleged.

The BJP, nonetheless, refutes these allegations with its Rajya Sabha MP Pabitra Margherita asserting the campaigning activity recognises Sarma’s means “to connect with people’s pulse, his practical and viable commitments and its timely implementation which has been noticed not only in the region but also in the rest of the country”.

Besides, BJP encourages and empowers “new generation politicians and gives space to young leaders working for the nation’s development along with preserving ideological ethos,” Margherita stated.