Poll winning BJP team lands in Karnataka
Surat was a tough challenge for the BJP as Patidar youths had staged agitations.
Mumbai: A team of BJP workers from Mumbai is in Bengaluru to help the party in the forthcoming Karnataka Assembly elections, on the directives of party national chief Amit Shah.
The 47-member team with the party’s Mumbai chief Ashish Shelar at the helm had helped the party win 15 of the 16 seats in Surat district in the tough Gujarat Assembly elections. “We are disciplined party workers. Wherever the party leadership would ask us to go, we will go and give our best. We are confident that Bengaluru will stand with Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s development agenda,” said Mr Shelar from Bengaluru on phone.
Mr Shelar was Mr Shah’s point man for Surat during the 2017 election. Surat was a tough challenge for the BJP as Patidar youths had staged agitations.