As Gujarat goes polling on May 7 for the Lok Sabha elections, prime minister Narendra Modi is set to begin his electoral campaign in the state on May 1 and 2.
Modi will visit North Gujarat’s Deesa and Himmatnagar on May 1 and will cover Anand, Surendranagar, Junagadh, and Jamnagar on May 2, convening public rallies in 14 parliamentary constituencies.
Notably, these public meetings are to be held under tight police surveillance, with central teams assigned security responsibilities.
This vigilance is taken in light of the ongoing Kshatriya agitation across the state over union minister Parshottam Rupala’s remarks.
Moreover, police personnel from the Kshatriya community are deployed in around 25 parliamentary constituencies in the state, which include Kshatriya villages and areas with a significant population of the community.
The rural units of the BJP have borne the brunt of the Kshatriya unrest across the state, as leaders have to cancel meetings and are facing resistance while campaigning in villages.
Meanwhile, Kshatriya groups are persistently organising statewide protests.
The BJP’s top leadership is engaging in frequent dialogues to convince the community; however, the party has failed to pacify their uproar.
Protests and demonstrations are erupting at their full fledge in Jamnagar, Bhavnagar, Mehsana, Surendranagar, Rajkot, Bardoli, Sabarkantha, and Vadodara Lok Sabha constituencies.
A public rally by union defence minister Rajnath Singh was protested by a group; however, the police managed to prevent any adversity.