The BJP high command seems to have taken the Gujarat assembly election as a matter of pride, and the party is in no mood to let the allegations made by the Opposition go uncontested.
The Bharatiya Janata Party has come out with a new video campaign featuring Gujarati film actor Hitu Kanodiya to counter the “Vikas gando thayo chhe” (vikas has gone mad) campaign.
The Vikas gando thayo chhe campaign was started by a Patidar youth and it found support in Patidar leader Hardik Patel and Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi.
The BJP has shared the video on its official Gujarat Twitter page on Thursday.
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According to The Indian Express, Hitu, the son of former BJP MLA Naresh Kanodia, is seen lecturing a group of youngsters questioning development in Gujarat.
In the three-minute video, Hitu tells the group that the place where they were sitting was a “sign of development”. He goes on to cite progress indicators such as electricity and digitisation. The clip ends with the youths clapping for Kanodiya who says: “Hun chhu Vikas, Hun chhu Gujarat (I am Vikas, I am Gujarat)”.
“We have decided to completely ignore the negativity attached with that campaign (Vikas has gone crazy) and to focus on the positive aspects of development under the party’s governance in Gujarat,” Amit Thaker, the head of Gujarat BJP’s social media cell, told the newspaper.
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Interestingly, this video was released just a day after another video tweaking the “Mauka Mauka” ad that mocks the Congress and its leader Rahul Gandhi went viral online. Many BJP leaders have also retweeted the video.
Although some BJP leaders have retweeted the video, the party has said it has nothing to do with its making.
DNA reported that the video tweeted by both BJP leader Vijay Chauthale and IT head Amit Malviya replaces Pakistan with Congress in the ad and shows the grand old party repeatedly losing in Gujarat. The decision to portray Congress as Pakistan is also particularly.
