The foundation day of Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), which has come ahead of the Lok Sabha elections, will be celebrated by all the party leaders, functionaries, MLAs, MPs and ministers at 97,325 booths across the State. Along with the booth reinforcement, all the voters coming under the booth will be contacted and communicated on this occasion. For three hours, everyone is going to celebrate the foundation day, informed Chandrashekhar Bawankule, BJP State President while interacting with mediapersons at Patrakar Club of Nagpur on Friday.

 

Deputy Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis will be present at two booths in Nagpur. State President Chandrasekhar Bawankule informed, “33,369 Super Warriors in the State will salute the flag and at the same time, a large number of party entry programmes will be held. The speech of Prime Minister Narendra Modi will be broadcast live at the booth level across the State. Beneficiary contact campaign and bike rally will be organised. BJP’s 32 lakh workers will work for the Lok Sabha elections and are working full-time to ensure that Mahayuti will get 51 per cent votes in each booth. Gudhi Padwa, Mahatma Phule birth anniversary, Dr Babasaheb Ambedkar birth anniversary will be observed at every booth.” Devendra Fadnavis from booth no 5 and 6 of Nagpur South West Assembly Constituency, Union Minister Nitin Gadkari from Central Nagpur will participate at booth no 219 and 220. Several people will be joining BJP in presence of Bawankule. He will attend the foundation day programme at the booth number 28 and 29 of Kamptee Assembly Constituency. MLA Ashish Jaiswal, MLA Tekchand Savarkar, Adv Dharmpal Meshram, Sudhakar Kohale, Mohan Mate, Dinesh Thakre, Anandrao Raut, Pravin Bhisikar, Chandan Goswami were present. 

 

 

Bharatiya Janata Party has lodged complaint against Vikas Thakre, Congress candidate for Nagpur Lok Sabha for sharing derogatory video. In its complaint lodged by City President Jitendra alias Bunty Kukde, BJP has demanded strict action against Thakre and to ban him from contesting 2024 Lok Sabha polls. Thakre shared a video on social media where he says, ‘BJP is going to finish the Constitution prepared by Dr Babasaheb Ambedkar’ and ‘BJP will also finish Deekshabhoomi’. Pointing at this, the complaint by Kukde says, ‘Deekshabhoomi is a pious place, significant not only for Buddhist and Scheduled Caste community but for entire Maharashtra and India.

 

This place is historically and culturally valuable. His statements are part of his false and baseless propaganda to seek votes but is a clear violation of model code of conduct. He has violated the provision in The Representation of The People’s Act, 1951. The provision says - No appeal for votes by a candidate or his agent or by any other person with the consent of the candidate or his election agent to vote or refrain from voting for any person on the ground of religion, race, caste, community or language. The complaint says, ‘By sharing derogatory and inflammatory video, Vikas Thakre, the Congress candidate of Nagpur Lok Sabha has violated the provision in The Representation of The People’s Act, 1951 and mandatory guidelines as directed by Election Commission of India during the time when Model Code of Conduct is in force. Allowing Thakre to continue with his illegal act would have far reaching effect in maintaining peace in the constituency especially during election period and also for conducting free and fair election. Ban Thakre from contesting 2024 Lok Sabha elections and further polls.