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Ahmedabad: The Gujarat unit of the BJP on Sunday kicked off the vistarak initiative which is aimed at establishing a direct contact with people ahead of the Assembly elections to be held later this year.
Under the initiative, which would continue till 5 June, each party vistarak (a full-time worker) will visit each of total 48,000 polling booths across the state to canvass for the party and to interact with people.
On the first day, all the 48,000 _vistarak_s, including state chief minister Vijay Rupani and state party in-charge Bhupender Yadav, visited their designated booths and listened to Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Mann ki Baat radio programme with locals, stated a party release.
While Rupani interacted with people at a booth in Kheda district, Yadav remained present at a booth in Gandhinagar district, it said.
BJP president Amit Shah will visit Gujarat on 31 May to take part in this initiative. On that day, Shah would visit a booth in tribal-dominated Chhota Udepur district as one of the _vistarak_s, as per the release.
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