Amit Shah set out on the roadshow in an open vehicle on BJP's 39th foundation day (File)
BJP president Amit Shah, who is contesting the Lok Sabha election from Gandhinagar seat, embarked on a roadshow in the city today - the 39th foundation day of the Bharatiya Janata Party or BJP.
Before the roadshow, which started from Sarkhej area of Ahmedabad in the morning, Mr Shah garlanded the pictures of Jan Sangh founders Deen Dayal Upadhyaya and Shyama Prasad Mukherjee.
Mr Shah asked the people present there to chant, "Jaha hue balidan Mukherjee, woh Kashmir hamara hai, sara ka sara hamara hai." (Where Mukhejee sacrificed his life, that Kashmir is ours, entirely ours).
PDP chief and former Jammu and Kashmir chief minister Mehbooba Mufti had recently criticised Amit Shah, saying he was "daydreaming" about abrogating Article 370 of the Constitution that provides special status to the state.
Amit Shah set out on the roadshow in an open vehicle with BJP state unit president Jitu Vaghani accompanying him.
The roadshow will cover several areas of western parts of Ahmedabad city, which falls in the Gandhinagar Lok Sabha constituency. It will pass through areas like Vejalpur, Prahladnagar, Jivraj Park, Mansi Cross road and will end at Haveli in Vastrapur.
In the evening, Amit Shah would take out another roadshow that will pass through Sabarmati area.
Hr is expected to meet party workers in Bopal area of his constituency on Saturday night and interact with them.
He has replaced BJP veteran LK Advani, who had been winning uninterrupted from Gandhinagar since 1998. This is Amit Shah's maiden Lok Sabha election.
The BJP chief had filed his nomination last Saturday in the presence of Union Finance Minister Arun Jaitley, Home Minister Rajnath Singh, Shiv Sena chief Uddhav Thackeray and Chief Minister Vijay Rupani.