Ram Madhav to address rally in Kulgam on Saturday

Ram Madhav, the BJP’s national general secretary will be addressing a public rally in Kulgam on Saturday while as party will kickstart its election campaign in Ladakh on Thursday.

Madhav, who looks after the party affairs in Jammu and Kashmir,will be on day’s visit to Kashmir on Saturday- the last day of campaigning forsecond phase for southern Kashmir Anantnag district.

   

“Madhav ji will address election rally in Kulgam andpreparations are being made,” BJP state spokesperson, Altaf Thakur told GreaterKashmir.

One of the senior BJP leader said that Madhav will alsointeract with all leaders and activists of party in Kulgam. “It would be amarathon rally in which most of the party leaders including all districtpresidents of southern Kashmir will be present,” he said. “We have organizedsome rallies in southern Kashmir.”

This will be Madhav’s third visit to Kashmir, since LokSabha elections were announced. This will also be first visit of any highprofile BJP leader to volatile southern Kashmir.

On his earlier visit, the BJP general secretary has appealedthe people to vote in large numbers and assured them that Prime MinisterNarendra Modi will solve all problems of Kashmiris.

“Modi led government has taken strong action againstterror,” he had said. “But at the same time we have undertaken many developmentactivities in the state.”

Meanwhile, the BJP will also start its Lok Sabha electioncampaign in Ladakh on Thursday. It will be kickstarted by BJP general secretary(Org), Ashok Kaul.

Ladakh goes to polls in the fifth phase on May 6.

The party has fielded 31-year-old Jamyang Tsering Namgyal asits candidate for Ladakh constituency. The young leader, who is serving as thecurrent chief executive councillor (CEC) of Ladakh Autonomous Hill DevelopmentCouncil (LAHDC), has remained private secretary to the former BJP MP andrenowned Buddhist spiritual leader, Thupstan Chhewang.

Veteran leader Thupstan Chhewang had won the Ladakhparliamentary seat for the saffron party for the first time in 2014 by a narrowmargin of 36 votes by defeating Congress rebel candidate Ghulam Raza, butresigned from the primary membership of the party in November last year,claiming that all promises made by it sounded like an “emptyrhetoric”.

The vast and sparsely populated Ladakh constituency has1,56,888 voters (85,763 in Kargil and 71,125 in Leh), out of which 79,432 aremale and 77,456 are female.

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