BJP plans ‘Saugat-e-Modi’ for minority festivities, opposition calls it poll gimmick | India News

NEW DELHI: The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is planning to launch the “Saugat-e-Modi” marketing campaign to distribute particular kits to Muslims and different minorities in the course of the festive seasons, with the opposition calling the initiative a poll gimmick.
The occasion’s Minority Mocha, as a part of the marketing campaign, will collaborate with mosques to succeed in the needy individuals nationwide.
Through the programme, which can kick off from Nizamuddin in Delhi on Tuesday, the ruling occasion goals to distribute kits to 32 lakh underprivileged Muslims throughout the nation forward of Eid. For the scheme, 32,000 Minority Morcha staff will collaborate with 32,000 mosques nationwide.
Jamal Siddiqui, chief of the BJP Minority Morcha, outlined the marketing campaign’s broader imaginative and prescient, stating that in the course of the holy month of Ramadan and upcoming events like Eid, Good Friday, Easter, Nauruz, and the Indian New Year, the Minority Front will attain out to these in want by means of the “Saugat-e-Modi” marketing campaign.
Eid Milan celebrations will even be organised on the district degree, he added.
As a part of the initiative, kits might be distributed containing important objects comparable to meals provides, vermicelli, dates, dry fruits, and sugar. Additionally, the kits will embody clothes, with ladies’s packages providing material for fits and males’s kits that includes kurta-pyjamas. Each package is estimated to value between Rs 500 and Rs 600, reported information company ANI citing sources.
With the announcement of the scheme, the politics heated up because the opposition accused the BJP of taking part in political gimmicks forward of elections in Bihar, the place Muslims represent round 16-17% of the state’s whole voters and are significantly influential in districts comparable to Kishanganj, Araria, Katihar, Seemanchal area, and components of central Bihar.
“You see there is an election in Bihar, they are not giving ‘saugat’ kits, but asking for votes through it. If they had the wish to give ‘saugat’ in Bihar, then they should have given the jobs to stop migration from Bihar,” Congress MP Ranjeet Rajan advised information company PTI.
NDA ally and Union minister Chirag Paswan, nonetheless, backed the BJP’s initiative calling it the end result of PM Modi’s ‘Sabka Saath, Sabka Vikas’ concept.
“My PM Narendra Modi ji believes in ‘Sabka Saath, Sabka Vikas’. With this thought, the central government and the Bihar government are working towards development,” Paswan mentioned.
Ex-Bihar CM Jitan Ram Manjhi, who’s at the moment MSME minister in Modi’s Cabinet, mentioned: “The PM works in favour of all Indians irrespective of religion, caste. The misconception about him regarding the Muslim community should also be removed. He is for everyone. Needy people will be given the ‘saugat’.”