BJP banks on folk tunes to tug voters' heartstrings

Meerut | Friday | 25th May, 2018

Summary:

BIJNOR: To counter SP-RLD's intense door-to-door campaigning, BJP is using 'Ragini' folk songs to garner sympathy votes in Noorpur assembly bypoll. Ragini is a local folk song form heard in the rural belt of western UP. According to party insiders, several BJP bigwigs will be visiting the constituency in the next few days.Chief minister Yogi Adityanath will be here on Thursday.On the other hand, SP-RLD candidate Naemul Hasan has been silently conducting door-to-door campaigning. It is a story sung with musical instruments, but with limited enactment." Lokendra tu to chala gaya, ab kaun rokega ye aansu (Lokender you are gone, who will console us now)," says one of the many songs specially composed by BJP to make an emotional appeal to the residents of Noorpur..