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Ahead of the assembly polls in Maharashtra which is scheduled to take place in October, the party officials aim to conduct these plays in all the assembly constituencies across Mumbai starting from Friday.
Updated : Sep 14, 2019, 12:57 AM IST | Edited by : Arijit Saha
Bharatiya Janta Party's Mumbai unit will stage 300 street plays informing the people about the ruling party's "historic move" of abrogation of scrapping Article 370, party officials said.
Ahead of the assembly polls in Maharashtra which is scheduled to take place in October, the party officials aim to conduct these plays in all the assembly constituencies across Mumbai starting from Friday.
The party said that the aim of these street plays is to educate the public about the historic and political events surrounding the J&K state before article 370 was abrogated. The plays will highlight how BJP's move to end the special status of Jammu and Kashmir will be beneficial to the people of the region.
According to a report in IANS, rehearsals for these plays were performed in Shah's presence when he visited Mumbai two weeks ago following which the BJP leaders decided to conduct these plays all over the financial capital.
The new agency quoted the spokesperson and the main organiser of the program, Niranjan Shetty, as saying that the BJP's municipal corporators of Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) and other party workers were given the responsibility to conduct this project across Mumbai.
Maharashtra goes to the polls in October and BJP's campaign is in full swing as they hope to come back to power in the state by focusing on the achievements of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's government in his first 100 days of the second term. Abrogation of Article 370 is likely to be the core issue of their political campaign.
The Jammu and Kashmir (Reorganisation) Bill, 2019, which strips Jammu and Kashmir's status of a state and converts it into a Union Territory with legislature and carving out Ladakh region as a union territory without legislature, was passed in the Parliament last month.