Gujarat elections 2012: Modi to woo voters by gifting cricket bats - NewsX

Kashmir willow, a cricket bat manufacturing town in Jammu and Kashmir is abuzz with activity not because of any cricketing event but for the forthcoming Gujarat elections. One lakh bats are being manufactured to be distributed in Gujarat with stickers of Swami Vivekananda pasted on them. "A Meerut-based company, Hans Rubber, has placed orders for 'tennis ball' cricket bats with around half a dozen manufacturing units here. We believe the order has been placed by an NGO from Gujarat," Shakeel Ahmad of Front Line Bat Manufacturing Unit said. Ahmad said the manufacturers have been asked to paste stickers of Swami Vivekananda on the bats, which are slightly bigger in size than regular bats.

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