The ruling Bharatiya Janata Party(BJP) is all set to make and security a key election issue in the upcoming polls in three states.
The first glimpse of the plan was visible in Jind, Haryana, where party president Amit Shah had gone to launch the election campaign of the BJP in the state. In the course of the public meeting, Shah categorically stated that the abrogation of Article 370 had not happened for 70years but the Union government under Prime Minister Narendra Modi had done it within 75days of returning to power at the Centre.
Assembly elections may be held in Haryana, Maharashtra and Jharkhand later this year. This is not the first time that the BJP has made national integration and security a major election issue. During the 2019 general elections as well, party leaders had focussed on talking about the airstrikes in Ballot, Pakistan-occupied Kashmir and surgical strikes carried out by the armed forces against terrorist hideouts across the Line of Control in the first term of the National Democratic Alliance government under PM Modi. Senior leaders of the Congress said the party is mindful of the challenges that the recent developments, particularly with respect to removal of Article 370, will pose given that the ruling BJP is likely to make it a key poll plank in the upcoming state elections.
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