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The Narendra Modi-Shivraj Singh Chouhan war is far from over
BHOPAL: The BJP's internal war on prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi is far from over. For even as veteran leader LK Advani praised Modi for his development projects while addressing a public meeting in Chhattisgarh on Monday morning, the ruling-BJP in Madhya Pradesh called a press conference in the afternoon to project chief minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan as the secular alternative within the party.
The ruling-BJP in Madhya Pradesh claimed on Monday that since chief minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan was a "genuine human-being", Muslim voters in the state will ascertain the party's third-term victory in the upcoming assembly elections in November.
BJP national vice-president Prabhat Jha said: "Muslims will ensure the BJP's hat-trick return with at least 170 out of 230 seats in the state assembly. The Muslim community's attitude towards the BJP in Madhya Pradesh has undergone a tremendous transformation because of chief minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan's welfare policies that did not discriminate between people on the basis of religion.''
Prabhat Jha called a press conference on Monday afternoon to project Chouhan as a BJP chief minister who enjoys full support and confidence of the minority Muslim population which has a 14 per cent voting stake in the state. This statement came just two hours after veteran leader LK Advani praised Narendra Modi as the first to implement 24-hour power supply to rural areas in the country.
"The chief minister toured through the assembly constituencies of Bargi, Majholi and Panagar in Jabalpur district as part of the pre-poll Jan Ashirwad yatra to seek the blessings of the people for a third-term victory on Sunday," explained Prabhat Jha.
"Rallies to receive the chief minister were bigger than those in Dussehra and Diwali. More than 35,000 people from the Muslim community organized their own public meeting to welcome the chief minister with banners and posters. They sang 'quawalis' in his praise. The community was so possessive about Chouhan that the BJP's workers hardly got any place on the dais — it was only they with the chief minister on the stage," Prabhat Jha added. The BJP argued that it has broken its traditional vote bank in the state to include the minority Muslim community which will get the BJP 20 more seats that the present 153.
Since June this year, chief minister Chouhan had been repeatedly projected by a section within the BJP as the secular alternative to Narendra Modi. Even after Modi's official coronation as the prime ministerial candidate, the efforts have not stopped.
It all started with LK Advani projecting Chouhan as a better administrator than Modi during a party workers' meeting on June 1. Even after he was appointed party national election campaign committee chief, Modi's photo went missing from MP BJP campaign posters. Modi found a place in Chouhan's posters only recently after he refused to attend a workers' meeting in Bhopal scheduled for September 25. On the day of Eid-ul-Fitr, Chouhan sported a skull cap while he greeted Muslims on their festival — a gesture denied by Narendra Modi during his Sadbhavna fast in September 2011. Though Narendra Modi has won his initial battle against dissidents within the party, the war may not be over as yet.
The ruling-BJP in Madhya Pradesh claimed on Monday that since chief minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan was a "genuine human-being", Muslim voters in the state will ascertain the party's third-term victory in the upcoming assembly elections in November.
BJP national vice-president Prabhat Jha said: "Muslims will ensure the BJP's hat-trick return with at least 170 out of 230 seats in the state assembly. The Muslim community's attitude towards the BJP in Madhya Pradesh has undergone a tremendous transformation because of chief minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan's welfare policies that did not discriminate between people on the basis of religion.''
Prabhat Jha called a press conference on Monday afternoon to project Chouhan as a BJP chief minister who enjoys full support and confidence of the minority Muslim population which has a 14 per cent voting stake in the state. This statement came just two hours after veteran leader LK Advani praised Narendra Modi as the first to implement 24-hour power supply to rural areas in the country.
"The chief minister toured through the assembly constituencies of Bargi, Majholi and Panagar in Jabalpur district as part of the pre-poll Jan Ashirwad yatra to seek the blessings of the people for a third-term victory on Sunday," explained Prabhat Jha.
"Rallies to receive the chief minister were bigger than those in Dussehra and Diwali. More than 35,000 people from the Muslim community organized their own public meeting to welcome the chief minister with banners and posters. They sang 'quawalis' in his praise. The community was so possessive about Chouhan that the BJP's workers hardly got any place on the dais — it was only they with the chief minister on the stage," Prabhat Jha added. The BJP argued that it has broken its traditional vote bank in the state to include the minority Muslim community which will get the BJP 20 more seats that the present 153.
Since June this year, chief minister Chouhan had been repeatedly projected by a section within the BJP as the secular alternative to Narendra Modi. Even after Modi's official coronation as the prime ministerial candidate, the efforts have not stopped.
It all started with LK Advani projecting Chouhan as a better administrator than Modi during a party workers' meeting on June 1. Even after he was appointed party national election campaign committee chief, Modi's photo went missing from MP BJP campaign posters. Modi found a place in Chouhan's posters only recently after he refused to attend a workers' meeting in Bhopal scheduled for September 25. On the day of Eid-ul-Fitr, Chouhan sported a skull cap while he greeted Muslims on their festival — a gesture denied by Narendra Modi during his Sadbhavna fast in September 2011. Though Narendra Modi has won his initial battle against dissidents within the party, the war may not be over as yet.
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