Sitting amid party workers and supporters in his office, Dhoraji’s Congress MLA Lalit Vasoya seems unconcerned about the BJP’s star-studded campaign compared to his party’s low-key campaign and the reach of his constituency and the backs of the people. Express confidence of another victory. “Rage” with the state government.
Star campaigners “waste” time and the mainstream media is often “pro-BJP”, Vasoya deflects questions about his party’s apparently weak campaign and says he has instead worked for his constituency has relied on visiting almost all the 80 villages and three municipalities of the Along with this, they are also using social media to reach out to their voters.
Come December 8, they say, and the Congress will again do well in the Saurashtra region. In Tankara, another constituency in the region the Congress won last time, party workers say their MLA Lalit Kagathara is the biggest “star” in the constituency because of his work and reach to constituents.
Party supporters Anil Bavaliya and Sikandar say the price of edible oil has more than doubled in recent years and a cooking gas cylinder costs more than Rs 1,100 and add that these are real issues for those Who will again vote for Congress.
However, there is an acknowledgment about the presence of the Aam Aadmi Party which has been able to generate buzz with its high-decibel campaign, while a section of the electorate believes that the Congress will present a strong challenge against the BJP and Arvind Kejriwal. been unable to do. Kejriwal’s party is worth watching.
In Tankara, BJP’s Durlabhji Detharia, AAP’s Sanjay Bhatsana and Congress candidates are all from the Patidar community. How Aam Aadmi Party’s vote will affect the election results can be guessed, but it is believed that in the whole region, its impact may be more on Congress than the ruling party, which has its own Committed vote base based on ideological enthusiasm.
Riding on the Patidar agitation against the BJP, the Congress had won 28 of the 48 seats in the region in 2017. The ruling party has since worked to increase its strength by wooing several local heavyweights from the Congress.
The Patidar agitation, with many of its key leaders including Hardik Patel now in the BJP, has given the party hope that it can leave its rival far behind in the largely rural constituency, where its poor performance had dogged it at the time.
Local Congress leaders believe that the BJP also shares the view that their party remains the biggest challenge to the ruling party.
The opposition party also believes that the “misery” of farmers under the government will help it.
He says that the Congress candidates are mostly experienced organizational leaders, who are capable of withstanding the BJP’s onslaught.
“It may not be a movement like the (Patidar) quota movement we saw last time, but people’s frustration with the state government has deepened,” he said. I can’t see the BJP doing better than last time,” says the Dhoraji MLA.
Under the leadership of the Prime Minister, the BJP has fielded its heavy hitters Narendra Modi and involving senior leaders such as Amit Shah and several chief ministers including Yogi Adityanath for the campaign across the state.
congress leader Rahul Gandhi There have been only two rallies in a campaign where the party seems to have relied mostly on local mobilisation, apart from public meetings by some better-known names like Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot, who is its senior observer for the state.
Saurashtra will go to polls in the first phase on December 1 along with Kutch and South Gujarat. The second phase is to be held on December 5 while the counting of votes is to take place on December 8.
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