Union Home Minister Amit Shah, who is among the Bharatiya Janata Party’s star campaigners scheduled to visit J&K to seek support for party candidates in the ensuing parliamentary polls, will not visit Jammu on April 9.
Reports quoting anonymous party sources suggested that given his busy schedule, Home Minister’s April 9 visit was postponed and would be rescheduled.
Notwithstanding earlier media reports about the Union Home Minister’s likely visit to address a rally in Jammu on April 9, J&K BJP’s chief spokesperson Sunil Sethi, while speaking to a Kashmir based news agency, had even earlier asserted that the party had not received official communication confirming the date and venue of his visit so far.
“Union Home Minister will be available for campaigning in J&K. But we don’t have a confirmed date and venue so far. I’ll confirm when I get an official communication. In any case, that is a long-drawn security drill. Security concerns are intrinsic to their visits. So details are not revealed to everybody very soon,” Sethi had stated.
Meanwhile, reports, again quoting anonymous party sources, said that the Defence Minister Rajnath Singh would address an election rally in Basohli on April 15 in favour of the party candidate from Udhampur seat Dr Jitendra Singh.
Amit Anil Chandra Shah (born 22 October 1964) is an Indian politician who is currently serving as the 31st Minister of Home Affairs since 2019 and the 1st Minister of Co-operation of India since 2021. He served as the 10th President of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) from 2014 to 2020. He has also served as chairman of the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) since 2014. He was elected to the lower house of Parliament, Lok Sabha, in the 2019 Indian general elections from Gandhinagar. Earlier, he had been elected as a member of the upper house of Parliament, Rajya Sabha, from Gujarat from 2017 to 2019.
A chief strategist of the BJP, he is a close aide to Narendra Modi. He was also the member of the Gujarat Legislative Assembly from Naranpura from 2012 to 2017 and Sarkhej from 1997 to 2012 and the Minister of State for Home, Law and Justice, Prison, Border Security, Civil Defence, Excise, Home Guards, Transport, Prohibition, Gram Rakshak Dal, Police Housing, Legislative and Parliamentary Affairs, Government of Gujarat in the Modi ministry from 2002 to 2012. During his college days, Shah was a member of the Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP), the student wing of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS). At the age of 18, he secured a position in the ABVP and joined the BJP in 1987.
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