BJP netas to tune in to 'Mann Ki Baat' over chai in Gujarat today

November 26, 2017 08:43

The top Bharatiya Janata Party leaders including party chief Amit Shah and Finance Minister Arun Jaitley will today tune in to Prime Minister Narendra Modi's monthly radio programme 'Mann ki Baat' over cups of kadak chai in poll-bound Gujarat.

The event, to be held at all 50,128 polling booths in 182 assembly seats, is aimed to exploit a crude meme tweeted by the Congress mocking the prime minister's 'chaiwala past.

While Shah will attend the program, named 'Mann ki Baat - Chai Ke Saath', in the Dariyapur constituency in Ahmedabad, the Union finance minister will have tea with people at a booth in Adajan area of the Surat-West seat, said a party release.

Other party leaders who would join the program at various places are Union ministers Piyush Goyal, Dharmendra Pradhan, Uma Bharti, Smriti Irani, Jual Oram, Parshottam Rupala, state BJP president Jitu Vaghani, chief minister Vijay Rupani and several Gujarat ministers, MLAs and MPs.

The event is being organised ahead of Modis tour of Gujarat on November 27 and 29, during which he will address eight rallies in Saurashtra and south Gujarat which would be going to polls on December 9.

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