BJP city unit demands star campaigners to ensure win

Kanpur: The city unit of Bharatiya Janata Party is gearing up to unleash its star campaigners in Aryanagar, Sisamau and Cantonment assembly constituencies — the key segments it had lost in 2017 UP assemby elections.
BJP had lost Aryanagar and Sisamau to Samajwadi Party and Cantonment to Congress in 2017 elections. Of the total 52 seats in Kanpur-Bundelkhand region, the Opposition could wrest only five seats of which three were from Kanpur City.
In a strategic move aimed at ensuring victory on these three seats, Kanpur BJP unit has requested Union home minister Amit Shah, BJP national president JP Nadda and defence minister Rajnath Singh to campaign in these seats.
SP’s Amitabh Bajpai had defeated BJP’s Salil Vishnoi from Aryanagar, while from Sisamau BJP’s Suresh Awasthi had lost to Haji Irfan Solanki of SP.
Sohail Akhtar Ansari of Congress had defeated BJP’s Raghunandan Bhadauria from Cantt assembly seat.
Party stalwarts believe that despite a good support base in the city, loss on these seats indicates a mistake somewhere.
On the basis of a survey, the party leadership has started gearing up to bring its star campaigners.
District’s north president Sunil Bajaj and district’s south president Dr Veena Arya Patel have asked the party’s election committee to rope in the party’s star campaigners home minister Amit Shah, national president Jagat Prakash Nadda and defence minister Rajnath Singh in these three seat and other assembly constituencies for meetings and door-to-door campaigning.