STATE TIMES NEWS
SURAT: Soon after his arrival here today on the first day of his three-day tour of South Gujarat, Union Minister and BJP Co-incharge of Gujarat Assembly Elections, Dr Jitendra Singh, got closeted with local BJP leaders, MPs, MLAs and office bearers, and held a series of Party’s strategy meetings, one after the other, in five Assembly constituencies of Surat city.
Members of Parliament C.R. Patil and Darshanaben Jardosh, MLAs representing respective Assembly constituencies were present in these meetings, along with BJP Gujarat State General Secretary Bharatsinh Parmar and BJP Surat District President Nitinbhai Thakar.
In between, Dr Jitendra Singh also visited the Party’s Call Centers and Social Media Cells set up by the different Assembly constituencies. During his visit, he offered several tips to activate the Social Media Cells and went through the questionnaire prepared by the Call Centers to make individual calls to voters in each of the Assembly segments in order to elicit their views, clarify their doubts or misgivings and update their personal information regarding current residential address, current mobile number, etc.
While talking to the media persons, on the sidelines of the meetings, Dr Jitendra Singh said, the relaxations brought in the GST have gone down very well among the business community in this industrial town and it had also helped clear several misgivings. He said, with each passing day, the business community is realising the enormous benefits and is voluntarily opting for it.
When asked about Rahul Gandhi who has simultaneously embarked on a three-day visit of South Gujarat and Surat from today, Dr Jitendra Singh said, the improvement in India’s rating from 130 to 100 in the Ease of Doing Business parameters should answer all the questions raised by Rahul Gandhi in relation to the GST. He said, the pressure on Congress Party and its leadership is evident from the fact that for the first time, wherever Rahul Gandhi and other Congress leaders are going, they are trying to seek sympathy by singing praises of Sardar Patel, whose legacy, they had, by a well thought out design, demolished for the last half-a-century.
