BJP banks on 'Mann Ki Baat' for campaign in Gujarat

Taking a cue from the PM's speech, BJP leaders attacked the Congress for allegedly being soft on terrorism and terrorists

Led by party chief Amit Shah and several Cabinet ministers, Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) workers across poll-bound Gujarat on Sunday made the most of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Mann Ki Baat broadcast to reach out to voters.

In his broadcast, the PM spoke at length about “jawan (soldier) and kisan (farmer)”. He also spoke about the Constitution and terrorism, more specifically how the world took too long to wake up to India’s dire warnings about the menace that terrorism posed to humanity. Sunday was the anniversary of India having adopted its Constitution on November 26, 1949, and also the anniversary