Guwahati: As a mark of respect towards the soldiers killed in Ladakh's Galwan valley, Assam BJP has rescheduled a 'virtual' rally that was to be held today to woo voters ahead of the 2021 polls.
The decision came after the party's Central leadership deferred all its political programmes for the next two days in solidarity with the loss of the Indian soldiers' lives in Galwan.
Assam BJP Chief Ranjeet Kumar Dass stated, "In solidarity with our Armed forces, we have postponed all political activities which includes BJP Assam's virtual rally scheduled for today."
Hours before the 'virtual' rally was slated to go live, BJP's National President and Member of Parliament (Rajya Sabha), J P Nadda in a statement released on social media said, "The supreme sacrifice of our brave soldiers while guarding our motherland in Galwan valley will always be remembered. The nation is indebted to them. I pay homage to the martyrs."
Assam chief minister Sarbananda Sonowal and finance minister Himanta Biswa Sarma were also supposed to be present in the virtual rally of the party scheduled to begin at 12 noon and all party workers of the state were requested to log in to the party's Facebook page and Youtube channel to participate in the rally. The state BJP has decided to host at least six such rallies in the coming months.
This would have been the state BJP's first time attempt to connect to its thousands of workers in the state at a time over the internet.
The saffron party had decided to unite its workers through these virtual rallies — one in Dibrugarh and in Barak Valley, two in northern Assam, one in Guwahati and the final one in Barpeta or Bongaigaon in lower Assam.