Amit Shah to address meeting of BJP OBC Morcha on Rajasthan tour

Home Minister Amit Shah is on a visit to Rajasthan. Today i.e. on Saturday, he will address the concluding session of the National Working Committee meeting of the OBC Morcha of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in Jodhpur. He will also address a meeting of BJP booth level workers in Jodhpur. Significantly, Union Minister Shah had reached Jaisalmer Air Force Base on Friday evening on a two-day visit to Rajasthan. He interacted with the officers at the South Sector Headquarters of the Border Security Force (BSF) at Dabla (Jaisalmer) and spent the night there.

Amit Shah will take part in various programs organized at Tanot temple in Dabla itself today. He will also lay the foundation stone of border tourism development work in Tanot complex. Later he will go to Jodhpur. Party functionaries in Jodhpur said Shah would be accorded a grand welcome on his arrival and more than 1500 party workers wearing saffron turbans on motorcycles would take him from the airport to the venue of the rally as a rally.

BJP's Other Backward Classes (OBC) Morcha national president K. Laxman, Union Labor Minister Bhupendra Yadav and BJP's Rajasthan unit chief Satish Poonia inaugurated the two-day working committee meeting on Friday morning. Soon after the OBC Morcha meeting, Shah will address BJP booth level workers at Jodhpur's Dussehra ground. The party is mobilizing its booth level workers from across the division for the meeting.

Jodhpur area, popularly known as Marwar, is the largest division of Rajasthan comprising six districts Jodhpur, Barmer, Jaisalmer, Jalore, Sirohi, Pali. Of the total 200 assembly constituencies, 33 are in Jodhpur division, 10 of which are in Jodhpur district alone, and 14 of them are currently held by the BJP, 17 with the Congress, one independent and one with the National Democratic Party. Assembly elections in Rajasthan are to be held at the end of next year.

BJP state president Poonia said, “OBC is a huge community. It is with the ideology of BJP. This is the first time that we have 27 (central) ministers from this community under BJP rule. Also, the OBC Commission has been given constitutional recognition by the Narendra Modi government.