Kanniyakumari, Mar 7 (UNI) Kickstarting his party’s campaign

for the April six Assembly elections and the Lok Sabha bypoll

in Kanniyakumari, senior BJP leader Union Home Minister Amit

Shah on Sunday expressed confidence that the AIADMK-BJP

combine would win the upcoming polls.

Launching the 'Vetri Kodi Eandhi', a door-to-door campaign,

he said the party would win the Kanniyakumari Lok Sabha

bypoll and that the NDA would win the Assembly elections

and form the government in Tamil Nadu.

He exuded confidence that a NDA-led coalition government

will come to power in the State after the Assembly polls.

Canvassing votes for former Union Minister Pon Radhakrishnan,

who was fieled by the BJP for the Kanniyakumari LS bypoll seat,

Mr Amit Shah, accompanied by BJP State Unit President L Murugan

and senior leaders, said he visited 11 houses to “convey Prime

Minister Narendra Modi’s message.”

“We have started the campaign to take the BJP’s Lotus symbol

door-to-door,” he said and appealed to the people to elect

Mr Radhakrishnan as the party “needs him”.

He said on seeing the excitement and enthusiasm of the people

he was sure about the outcome of the polls that NDA would win

the elections,

As part of the road show, Mr Shah also distributed pamphlets,

interacted with people and also took pictures with them.

Earlier, Mr Shah, on his arrival from Thiruvanathapuram by a

helicopter, offered worship to Lord Thanumalaya Swamy at

the famous Suchindram temple and launched his campaign

'Vetri Kodi Eandhi' (Vijay Sankalp Mahasampark Abhiyaan--a

door-to-door campaign) and also held a 'Vetri Kodi Eanthi'

(carrying the flag of victory) Road Show from Hindu College

to Veppamoodu Kamaraj statue.

As per the seat sharing agreement, the AIADMK, which is

heading the Front, allotted 20 Assembly seats to the BJP

and the Kanniyakumari Lok Sabha seat, where bypoll was

necessitated following the death of H Vasanthakumar of

Congress due to coronavirus.

Soon after inking the seat-sharing pact, the BJP wasted no

time in announcing Mr Pon Radhakrishnan as its nominee

for the LS seat in view of Mr Amit Shah's visit.

Mr Pon Radhakrishnan was twice elected from this seat

in 2009 and 2014 before losing to Mr Vasanthakumar by

a margin of more than 2.5 lakh votes in the 2019 Lok Sabha

polls.

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