BJP to Start Cricket Tournament Named After Article 370- Know More About The Tournament Here

By WEB DESK On Nov 30, 2021

The BJP in Gujarat plans to start a cricket tournament named after Article 370 which gave the erstwhile state of J&K a special status and which was abrogated in 2019 by Union Home Minister Amit Shah. As a nod to his role in steering the decision, cricket and kabaddi tournaments will be hosted in his Lok Sabha constituency of Gandhinagar.

According to Ahmedabad city BJP unit general secretary Jitubhai Patel, the league is named after Article 370, “which was abrogated in 2019 under Amit Shah’s leadership”, and there are plans to start tournaments in the middle of December.

The events have been organised to make the (young) voters, whose names are on the voters’ list, pro-BJP. For that, cricket and kabaddi have been selected. The target is to have at least two teams in each ward (one each for cricket and kabaddi),” Harshad Patel, BJP in-charge of Gandhinagar Lok Sabha constituency, was quoted as saying.

According to Patel, the idea was first discussed by Shah with 8-10 party members. Since then, more than 200 BJP workers have been called and assigned various responsibilities, he said. Among them, one is Gujarat MoS Jagdish Vishwakarma, who organised the Karnavati Premier League (KPL) for cricket in Ahmedabad five years ago. He has been asked to plan the tournaments, said the report.

Further, the league is currently open for men only, and the cricket matches will be played using tennis balls at grounds rented from local private owners, BJP leaders said.