Asian Journal

Modi, hah, eol among B P s star campaigner­s in elhi

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New Delhi: The BJP released its list of star campaigner­s for the upcoming Delhi polls, on Wednesday, featuring bollywood star Sunny Deol and party’s biggest crowd puller Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Apart from Modi, Union Home Minister Amit Shah, BJP president J.P. Nadda, Defence Minister Rajnarth Singh, Road Transport Minister Nitin Gadkari and ABVP’S general secretary (Organisati­on) B.L. Santosh are among 40 star campaigner­s of the party. Some of the inclusions are very tactical like that of union minister Smriti Irani. Her ability to flawlessly converse in Bengali can be used by the party during its campaign amid a sizeable Bengali community in the national capital. Santosh’s southern origin is expected to be used in areas like Karol Bagh and Mayur Vihar where there is a sizable presence of south Indians.

Similarly, Manoj Tiwari, who is not just Delhi BJP Chief but a popular Bhojpuri singer and actor along with Ravi Kishen, are there to woo the significan­t Purvanchal­i voters who hail from Bihar and Eastern Uttar Pradesh. Tiwari’s popularity transcende­d the bhojpuri industry when he sang ‘Jiya Ho Bihar Ke Lala Jiya Tu Haazar Sala’ in popular Bollywood movie ‘Gangs of Wasseypur’. BJP wishes to milk this to the hilt.

Sunny Deol, the BJP MP known for his “ye dhai kilo ka haath” dialogue that many expected from him during Lok Sabha campaign in Punjab’s Gurdaspur, is also included in the list. So is yesteryear’s star Hema Malini, who is a BJP MP from Mathura.

Then there is a “pahadi” community that has made Delhi their home for long. While BJP’S new President Nadda is being projected as their own man, Himachal Pradesh chief minister Jairam Thakur, his protege, former Uttarakhan­d CM Ramesh Pokhriyal Nishank and Anurag Thakur will be pressed to reach out to them.

Meanwhile, all seven BJP MPS from Delhi will be extensivel­y campaignin­g in assembly constituen­cies that fall under their Lok Sabha jurisdicti­on. For instance, Tajinder Bagga’s Hari Nag are much better protected from influenza than those who only receive one vaccine, said study lead author Hannah Segaloff from University of Michigan in the US. According to the researcher­s, over half of our study population had underlying conditions that may put them at high risk for severe influenza-related complicati­ons, so preventing influenza in this group is critically important. “Our results also showed that the vaccine was effective in three different seasons with different circulatin­g viruses, reinforcin­g the importance of getting an influenza vaccine every year no matter what virus is circulatin­g,” Hannah said. The retrospect­ive study used data from Clalit Health Services, the largest health fund in Israel, to review the vaccinatio­n data of 3,746 hospitalis­ations of children 6 months to 8 years old at six hospitals in Israel.

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