The 'Gandhinagar Loksabha Premier League 370' has been named this way to “draw maximum number of youth to the party”.
Union home minister Amit Shah. Photo: PTI
New Delhi: The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has decided to launch a cricked and kabaddi tournaments in Gujarat’s Gandhinagar named after Article 370. Gandhinagar is the the Lok Sabha constituency represented by Union home minister Amit Shah.
The ‘Gandhinagar Loksabha Premier League 370’ or GLPL 370 has been named this way to “draw maximum number of youth to the party”, local leaders told the Indian Express. Ahmedabad city BJP unit general secretary Jitubhai Patel expressly told the newspaper that the league was named after Article 370, “which was abrogated in 2019 under Amit Shah’s leadership”.
Tournaments under the league will begin in December, Jitubhai continued.
“The events have been organised to make the (young) voters, whose names are on the voters’ list, pro-BJP. For that, cricket and kabaddi have been selected. The target is to have at least two teams in each ward (one each for cricket and kabaddi),” Harshad Patel, BJP in-charge of Gandhinagar Lok Sabha constituency, told the Indian Express.
According to Harshad, the idea was first broached by none other than Shah himself in a small meeting. Since then, more than 200 BJP workers have been involved.
“An entire team of the Lok Sabha constituency is involved. The plan is to organise one kabaddi tournament for the entire constituency and seven cricket tournaments, one for each of its seven assembly segments. The registration of teams is already on,” BJP state unit general secretary Pradipsinh Vaghela told the newspaper.
The Indian Express report said that local BJP office-bearers have been assigned responsibilities including identifying teams, venues and commentators and framing rules.
In August 2019, the Narendra Modi government decided to unilaterally read down Article 370 of the Constitution, which gave a certain autonomy to Jammu and Kashmir, and divide the state into two Union territories. While the Union government claimed that this would help “integrate” the region with the rest of India, reduce militancy and help the economy grow, none of these effects has been documented yet.
source ; the wire
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