Countering the tea maker jibe by the Congress youth wing, BJP leaders, including Amit Shah and Arun Jaitley tuned in to PM Modi’s radio programme ‘Mann ki Baat’ while having tea with people across poll-bound Gujarat.
The program named ‘Mann ki Baat, Chai Ke Saath’, at all the 50,128 polling booths in 182 Assembly seats. BJP president Shah listened to the programme at a tea stall in the city’s Muslim-dominated Dariyapur area in the presence of hundreds of locals and party workers. Union Finance Minister Arun Jaitley was present at a booth in Adajan area of Surat-West Assembly constituency.
Gujarat Chief Minister Vijay Rupani, Deputy Chief Minister Nitin Patel, Union ministers Piyush Goyal, Dharmendra Pradhan, Uma Bharti, Smriti Irani, Jual Oram and Parshottam Rupala, Gujarat BJP president Jitu Vaghani and several state ministers, MLAs and some MPs were among the leaders tuned into the radio program.
The event organized is ahead of Modi’s tour of Gujarat on November 27 and 29 during which he will address eight rallies in Saurashtra and south Gujarat. The official Twitter handle of the Youth Congress’ on “Yuva Desh” had last week kicked up a row by mocking Modi’s “chaiwala” past and English speaking skills through a photograph.
Soon after the controversy, the Youth Congress had tendered an apology and removed the controversial tweet.
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