BJP to take SIR counter-offensive to masses before polls
The BJP is launching a mass campaign to counter opposition protests regarding the Election Commission's Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls. Home Minister Amit Shah has framed the opposition's efforts as a distraction from their electoral failures.
Why it matters
This campaign signals an escalation in political rhetoric and strategy ahead of upcoming assembly elections in India.
NEW DELHI: BJP will launch a campaign to take its counter-offensive against opposition's ongoing stir over Election Commission's SIR to the masses, as the governing party seeks to demolish its rivals' arguments in the run up to the next round of assembly polls, including in UP.BJP president Nitin Nabin is expected to finalise the details of the exercise in the coming days.With home minister Amit Shah unfurling a sharp attack on opposition, especially Rahul Gandhi, by framing his campaign as a cover to hide his repeated failures to lead Congress to victory in polls and to shield infiltrators from being weeded out of electoral rolls, BJP's public outreach is expected to broadly push this argument coupled with detailed rebuttal to critical points being made its opponents.Sources said the view within BJP is that opposition may have been able to make a public spectacle of its strident protests in the heart…
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