Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) President Amit Shah was in for a surprise on Tuesday, 3 April, when Election Commission officials searched his private aircraft after it landed in Hubballi, Karnataka for party events ahead of the 12 May Assembly poll.
A team of our officials searched the chartered aircraft in which Shah arrived here from New Delhi for party activities, to ensure the Model Code of Conduct is being observed.A poll official to IANS
Shah, who is on a two-day visit to the state, was accompanied by two other party leaders.
The search was carried out by three poll officials, though nothing “unusual” was found in the aircraft.
"It was a routine check. Found nothing. It's part of our drill under the MCC, in force since 27 March when the election was announced", noted the official.
BJP's Lok Sabha member from Dharwad, Prahlad Joshi received Shah at the airport and accompanied him to Kaginele in Byadgi taluk of Haveri district for addressing a convention of Other Backward Classes.
Asserting that the BJP was going to form the next government in the state, Shah said the party would fulfil the demand of the OBC community for constitutional status to the OBCs.
"Though the BJP-led NDA government has formulated 116 schemes for the OBCs across the country, unfortunately, they have not been reaching the intended beneficiaries in Karnataka due to non-cooperation of the state government", charged Shah without naming the ruling Congress.
Later, the party chief visited Badami in the state's northwest Bagalkot district for an interaction with seers of religious sects and mutts.
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