SRINAGAR: Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah on Monday said that it would be wrong to deny any Narendra Modi influence in the forthcoming general elections.
“As far as a Modi wave is concern, I think it will be a bit of an exaggeration, also it would be wrong on our part to deny any influence of Modi in the election,” Mr Abdullah told reporters in Winter capital Jammu.
“But I won’t use the word wave but, yes there is a Modi effect. And that affect may not so much be on the average voters but it is visible among the cadre of the BJP.”
The BJP, despised for its anti-Muslim image in Kashmir valley, has no presence here, although during the last Assembly elections in 2008 it performed well in the Hindu-majority Jammu.
