Migration,graft: BJP poll planks in Assam

Addressing a NDA rally on corruption,Advani broached the issue of infiltration from Bangladesh. This is aggression. This is invasion of the country, he said,asserting that the primary responsibility of tackling it vested with the Centre.

At the local level,the partys focus is alleged corruption of the Tarun Gogoi government and all the top BJP leaders mentioned the subject at the rally.

Advani and party chief Nitin Gadkari alleged that a competition was on between the Congress governments in Assam and the Centre on corruption.

Attaching much importance to elections in Assam and four other states the results to which the party feels could alter the political equations at the Centre the party entrusted senior leaders Arun Jaitley and Sushma Swaraj with the task of overseeing poll preparations and strategy-making. While Jaitley will look after Assam and West Bengal,Swaraj will focus on Tamil Nadu,Pondicherry and Kerala.

Since the rallys focus was corruption,it was but natural that the BJPs Karnataka Chief Minister B S Yeddyurappa facing allegations of nepotism stayed away. But what was interesting was that Gujarat CM Narendra Modi also did not attend the rally.

Only Himachal Pradesh CM Prem Kumar Dhumal was present. Interestingly,the BJPs election in-charge of Assam,Varun Gandhi,also did not make it. Sources said he was indisposed.