Congress changes tact, seeks to adopt ‘soft Hindutva’ to check BJP in Jammu

SRINAGAR: After a poor assembly poll show in Jammu, Congress leaders are calling for a change of strategy and adopting a soft Hindutva policy to fight the BJP in the Hindu belt of the region. In the recently held polls, Congress won six Assembly seats in the 90-member House.The party won five seats in the Valley and one from Muslim belt of the Jammu region. Not a single candidate from the Congress won from the Hindu belt of Jammu, though the party’s vote share had increased by 5-10 per cent in the region in the Lok Sabha polls.A senior Congress leader from Jammu told this reporter that time has come for the party to change the strategy to check BJP’s growing influence in the Hindu belt of Jammu.



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