Bihar polls: To thwart RJD & capitalise on Hanuman, BJP picks next ‘Tuesday’

New Delhi/Patna, June 1 (SocialNews.XYZ) When the Prime Minister said Indians need to learn to live with the coronavirus, BJP took it to heart. Now, notwithstanding the lockdown 5.0, the ruling BJP will sound its Bihar poll bugle next Tuesday.

A BJP functionary says, it has two reasons to choose June 9 for the purpose - it is a Tuesday which is considered auspicious for Hindus since it is the day of Lord Hanuman, a deity who is popular in the Hindi heartland. Another reason being, on June 9, RJD's Tejaswi Yadav has announced to hold a 'Gareeb Adhikar Diwas', where his party is expected to raise the offensive against BJP-JDU alliance's handling of the migrant situation.

Tejaswi Yadav has said that he will appeal to all that on June 9, everyone should come forward and protest with a plate, bowl or banana leaf. "Lalu ji used to say that if we can't have 'aata' (flour) in our stomach, then what will people do with 'daata'?" Yadav is clearly up for an offensive to harp upon the hunger and light of the poor and marginalized during the subsequent lockdowns.

But to thwart that, the BJP 'Chanakya' himself is likely to sound the poll bugle with his Facebook live on the very same day, where Amit Shah is likely to give a white paper on what the Centre has done for people of Bihar during the pandemic.

Though the central BJP hasn't either confirmed or denied about the event, the Bihar BJP has already started its work. Sources say, it is likely to be a live stream of Amit Shah which will be broadcast through different social media platforms of the BJP on Facebook, Youtube, Twitter and its website.

There are 243 assembly constituencies in the state. Bihar BJP has already started working to ensure one giant screen in each of the 243 assembly constituencies at least where people can be arranged to watch the address of Shah. Given maintaining social distancing is a concern for the party, most of these arrangements will take place not in party offices but in auditoriums, community halls of gram panchayats to ensure there is "do gaz ki doori" among those sitting there.

BJP's National Chief of Social Media Amit Malviya said that his department hasn't been notified about the address, so far. But BJP's Bihar chief Sanjay Jaiswal confirmed that Shah will indeed be the first among many faces who will hold such digital rallies and it will be on June 9. While he claims, more than 1 lakh people will watch that, it includes 38,000 of its cadres who the Bihar BJP expects to connect their phones with Android TVs and arrange a small group of people to watch.

According to the BJP website, Shah's last rally in Bihar was on January 16, in Vaishali, which was part of a series of such rallies to make a case for the controversial Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA).

Meanwhile, the election commission hasn't taken any decision on whether to hold the Bihar polls, which are scheduled for later this year, on time or defer it due to the pandemic. But that hasn't stopped BJP from sounding the poll bugle on a 'Tuesday', considered as the 'day of Bajrang Bali' in this part of India, which state BJP leaders claim will put the party at an advantage.

Source: IANS