BJP set to tap ‘Modi wave’ for fresh polls

It is for the first time that the BJP is hopeful of securing power in the national capital while the Centre is under a ‘friendly’ government.

With the capital looking at fresh Assembly elections, the Delhi BJP has been instructed to focus on seeking votes in the name of its Prime Minister-designate Narendra Modi.

The party hopes that the ‘Modi wave’, which ensured a massive win for the party in Lok Sabha polls, including all the seven seats in Delhi, would also work in the forthcoming Assembly polls and ensure a landslide victory for the party. Sources said the party has been asked to convince voters that once Modi government is installed at the Centre the road for Delhi to get full statehood would be cleared. It is for the first time that the BJP is hopeful of securing power in the national capital while the Centre is under a ‘friendly’ government.

Party cadres will tell voters that if a BJP government is elected at the state level as well, problems related to land, law and order and development can be addressed with more ease and precision.

With Harsh Vardhan as the chief ministerial candidate in the recently concluded Assembly elections, the party had projected itself as one that aims to provide a corruption-free government that would have worked for development. Interestingly, the party is also considering the Aam Aadmi Party, and not the Congress, as its principal opposition in the national capital. This was re-established after an analysis of the voting pattern in the Lok Sabha polls in the capital showed that the AAP had stood second in all seven Lok Sabha seats. The Congress came a distant third in all seven.

Sources in the BJP stated that to counter the AAP, the focus would be put on creating awareness amongst the electorate regarding the unwarranted resignation of the Arvind Kejriwal government earlier this year. Voters will also be made aware of how Kejriwal wanted to form the government and later retracted his stand, the source said.

AAP MLAs conduct meetings in their constituencies

To mobilise support for the party after the drubbing it received in Lok Sabha polls, the AAP on Sunday organised public meetings in the capital to discuss local level issues and the manner in which AAP MLAs will distribute funds. At a public meeting in Safdarjung Enclave (Malviya Nagar constituency), issues such as the shortage of water supply, road conditions and maintenance of parks governed the discussion. Retired Major Om Prakash Bhogra, president of Resident Welfare Association, B-4, Safdarjung Enclave, said, “Our blocks face acute shortage of water. We asked our MLA Somnath Bharti to look into the issue. We have been assured that once the MLA funds are dispersed, these problems will be addressed.” AAP spokesperson Nagendra Sharma said, “All AAP MLAs will hold such meetings in their constituencies over the next few days to listen to residents’ grievances.” (Express News Service)

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