New Delhi: With preparations for the upcoming assembly polls intensifying, Delhi BJP opened an election office at the state unit headquarters on Pandit Pant Marg on Saturday. The party also flagged off a fleet of vans to visit each assembly constituency to gather feedback for the party’s manifesto.
Delhi BJP chief Virendra Sachdeva performed a ‘havan’ with his wife, state election in-charge Baijayant Panda, election coordination committee chairman and Union minister Harsh Malhotra, MPs Ramvir Singh Bidhuri, Manoj Tiwari, Kamaljeet Sehrawat, Bansuri Swaraj, Yogendra Chandolia, Praveen Khandelwal and others.
Delhi assembly polls are due in Feb next year. After a five-year stint in the reconstituted assembly in 1993-98, BJP has failed to win a majority after that. While it was the principal opposition to Congress from 1998 to 2013, it is making all-out efforts to end the dominance of AAP for the decade.
Sachdeva said the people of Delhi had had “enough” and wanted to remove AAP from power to get relief from dirty water supply, damaged roads, expensive electricity and high pollution. Sachdeva claimed that despite making “grand” promises, AAP failed miserably on all fronts and expressed confidence that BJP would return to power this time.
While launching the fleet of 14 vans, Panda provided the feedback exercise the slogan of ‘Ab nahi sahenge, Badal kar rahenge (Will not tolerate now, will usher in change)’. Panda said based on the feedback, BJP would prepare its ‘Sankalp Patra’ for the upcoming 2025 assembly elections.
In a caustic retort about BJP’s slogan, AAP national convener Kejriwal claimed the “badal kar rahenge” motto of the opposition party reflected that it intended to reverse all the works done by the AAP govt in Delhi. In a post on X, he said, “They have today officially announced that they will change everything. It means the 24-hour electricity supply will stop and there will be long power cuts with bills of thousands of rupees, free bus travel for women will end, all schools will be ruined, mohalla clinics will be shut, and free medicines and treatment will stop.”
Kejriwal asked people to vote carefully since BJP has made its intentions clear now.
Sachdeva, however, called Kejriwal’s comment “baseless”. “BJP’s slogan for change has become immensely popular among the people within a few hours of its announcement and has debunked Kejriwal’s false propaganda,” Sachdeva said. “The people of Delhi are fully aware that the BJP govt will not stop free electricity and water or discontinue free travel for women in buses,” he added.
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