BJP Striving Hard To Conquer Congress-Dominated Tribal Belt In Gujarat
NDTV
The ruling party says the Congress's poll campaign has been lacklustre this time and that the entry of the AAP would divide the grand old party's votes.
The tribal belt in eastern Gujarat having 27 of the Assembly seats reserved for the Scheduled Tribe (SC) community is the only region in the state where the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has not tasted much electoral success so far as the Congress continues to remain a dominant force there despite losing ground elsewhere.
But now the BJP, which has been ruling the state for more than two decades after winning six Assembly elections in a row since 1995, feels that in the next month's state elections, it can win at least 20 out of these 27 seats as the tribal population wants development and also given Prime Minister Narendra Modi's popularity.
The ruling party says the Congress's poll campaign has been lacklustre this time and that the entry of the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) would divide the grand old party's votes.
The Congress, however, is of the view that the tribal population would continue to vote for it this time as well since they remember the "good work" done by the erstwhile party-led governments for the community's uplift.
