Ahmedabad: BJP activists have been on campaign to name tea stalls after Narendra Modi at Naroda Patia area in Ahmedabad. Naroda Patia was one of the most severely affected areas during the 2002 Gujarat riots.
While the tea stalls are being named after Modi to highlight his tea seller background and build the Lok Sabha campaign, but the residents of Naroda Patia are calling it cheap publicity stunt.
A tea shop run by Zubair Shaikh in Odhav area was re-branded as Namo tea stall by BJP activists. Zubair Shaikh, in his forties, is Qutubuddin Ansari's friend, the tailor whose photo became the face of Gujarat riots.
For the riot-hit residents, the renaming of tea stalls is not some thing to he happy about.
The idea to rename the stalls came from Bharatiya Yuva Janata Morcha leader Prakash Gurjar. Till now over 100 tea stalls have been named after Modi and the idea is to do the same across Ahmedabad.
Prakash Gurhar rejected allegations that BJP workers were forcing owners to rename their tea stalls.
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