Excelsior Correspondent
Srinagar, Sept 13: The Gujrat Chief Minister Narendra Modi in the run-up to the Gujrat elections is distributing thousands of cricket bats manufactured in Jammu and Kashmir during his month long 625-kilometer Swami Viveknanda Yua Vikas Yatra that began early this week.
The Chief Minister is distributing thousands of cricket bats to the youth during the yatra as part of his election campaign. The bats are being distributed at a time when there will be cricket fever on its peak in the country during T20 World Cup that is beginning from next week in Sri Lanka.
The bats will be gifted to people in the name of Swami Vivekananda, who incidentally was an avid cricketer and whose picture is appearing on the bats.
Frontline Sports at Halmulla in South Kashmir district of Pulwama has received an order for the manufacturing of 30,000 cricket bats that he was to complete in 20 days. The owner of the Frontline Sports Shakeel Ahmad told Excelsior that he had received the order from a bat manufacturing factory in Jallander for making 30,000 bats. He said that since the order was to be completed in 20 days he outsourced it to 10 bat manufacturing units of Halmulla.
Shakeel said that around 75,000 bats were manufactured for Modi’s yatra in Jammu and Kashmir. 55,000 bats were manufactured in Kashmir and 20,000 in Jammu. “The last consignment of the bats is to be dispatched tomorrow”, said Shakeel.
He said that they have nothing to do with the politics. “We have got the order and cash payment for the bats and we don’t know for whom they are”, he added.
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