Reportedly Jharkhand turned into a battleground on monday with the bharatiya janata party (BJP) and congress sending their top guns to the poll-bound state. Meanwhile bjp chief amit shah stressed national issues such as the National Register of Citizens (NRC) and the construction of a ram temple at ayodhya were as important as local ones, congress leader rahul gandhi targeted the ruling saffron party for "taking away land from the tribals and giving it to industrialists."
Furthermore Shah set a 2024 deadline for implementing the hugely divisive NRC across the country, asserting "each and every" infiltrator will be identified and expelled before the next general election. Apparently notwithstanding the admission by some bjp leaders in West bengal that apprehensions over the NRC cost the party dearly in the recent bypolls, the Union home minister told vpters in neighbouring Jharkhand that the nation-wide exercise will be conducted despite reservations voiced by Opposition parties. Shah said at election rallies in Chakradharpur and Baharagora "Today, I want to tell you that before the 2024 polls the NRC will be conducted across the country and each and every infiltrator identified and expelled. Rahul baba says don't expel them. Where will they go, what will they eat? But I assure you that before the country goes to polls in 2024 all illegal immigrants will be thrown out".
Moreover Shah said national issues such as uprooting terrorism, Naxalism and construction of a grand ram temple in ayodhya were as important in the Jharkhand elections as local matters like development. Hence raking up the ram Janmabhoomi-Babri mosque dispute once again, the bjp president alleged the congress made attempts to thwart the hearing of the case in the Supreme Court.
