00:07The Bhartia Janata Party is organizing padhyatras already across the country.
00:11The BJP has found a strategy.
00:13It may be election season for a state or two ladies and gentlemen.
00:17But when you mention Prime Minister's father, expect the BJP to jump on it and how.
00:23The party will deploy top and most influential leaders for the event.
00:27Union Minister, BJP Chief Ministers have been assigned to participate in the padhyatras across the country.
00:331st of November, when India Bloc is organizing rally at Ramlila Maidan,
00:41the BJP is also saying, we will also defend the SIR.
00:45If the opposition or the Congress party is so strong on what they think is wrong with the SIR exercise,
00:53they want the CEC to be removed.
00:55The BJP is saying, we will do an awareness campaign.
00:59Yogi Adityanath will lead a padhyatra in Lucknow.
01:01Himanta Biswasarma in Simla.
01:03Rajanath Singh, JP Nadda, Devendra Padnavez expect all these top leaders to be leading padhyatras.
01:09The focus is, ladies and gentlemen, to defend themselves against the allegation of vote-choring.
01:14I want to immediately bring in Aishwarya Paliwal, she has all the details.
01:17Aishwarya, what is the reason of these padhyatras?
01:20And this doesn't sound like a rally.
01:23So this means they may go possibly door to door as well, reach out to people.
01:27But for what?
01:29Well, you know what, Pooja, what the BJP at the moment is looking at is to make sure
01:33that there is a full-blown counter-narrative attack that they come out with.
01:37And that's the reason why these padhyatras are being done.
01:39CBS has seen how the BJP, in fact, you know, over the past many years has been a big fan
01:43of organizing padhyatras which basically are footmarches because they believe this is
01:47the best way to connect with the people of the country.
01:50You know, the top union ministers, BJP chief ministers, all of them, in fact, have been
01:54assigned different paths across the country.
01:57These padhyatras will continue for a full month, for full 30 days from 1st of November
02:02till the 30th of November.
02:04Yogi Aditranath, in fact, will be leading a padhyatra in Lucknow.
02:06Hemant Vishwisharma will be leading one in Shimla.
02:09Rajnath Singh, JP Natta, Devinder Fadnavish, they will all be leading padhyatras across various
02:13cities of the country.
02:15Home Minister Amin Shah, he will be participating in one padhyatra in Hyderabad.
02:19This, on the 2nd of November, and one in Karnal, in Haryana, this will take place on
02:24the 5th of November.
02:25Additionally, the Sikh community across the state of Punjab, affiliated with the BJP, will
02:29also be holding events on the 1st of November against the Congress party.
02:33So, this is a coordinated effort, something which was in the making over the past few days.
02:38This is BJP's counter-attack to the way the opposition has been pointing fingers at
02:43the BJP and saying that SIR is nothing but just an exercise.
02:46So, Ishwara, should we say that, is this an awareness campaign by the government?
02:51Is this a campaign on the defense where they want to tell people that SIR is a good exercise?
02:56Because opposition is all guns blazing.
02:59They also are doing a rally right on that same day, on November 1st.
03:04Well, Pooja, you know, from what I understand at the moment, BJP will not be playing defensive.
03:11This is BJP playing offensive and this is aggressive reach-out to the people, the top leadership
03:16of the BJP, out on the streets, out on the ground, beating people and trying to dispel
03:21the notion that SIR is not something to which you will not be allowed to vote.
03:26This is just a clean-up exercise to make sure only eligible voters have the rights to vote
03:31when the country goes for election.
03:32So, this will be the BJP out on the offensive, the top leaders on the ground, just like we
03:37have seen the opposition leaders over the past few days out on the streets.
03:41All right, I can already see the headlines, ladies and gentlemen.
03:45It's going to be 1st of November, the India Block opposition rally at Ramlila Maidan,
03:501st of November, same day, the BJP is also sending out its top and best chief ministers,
03:57leaders for the Padhyatras across the country.
