External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar to start BJP’s outreach for 2024 Lok Sabha polls from West Delhi gurdwara
From Sikh refugees to social media influencers: EAM Jaishankar to start BJP’s outreach for 2024 Lok Sabha polls in Delhi today.
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External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar. (Express file photo by Pavan Khengre) Ahead of the 2024 Lok Sabha election, External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar Thursday will kick off the Delhi leg of the BJP’s nationwide outreach programme from a gurdwara in West Delhi to talk about the achievements of the Narendra Modi government’s nine-year tenure.
Jaishankar has been put at the helm of the BJP’s month-long campaign aimed at spreading awareness regarding Prime Minister Modi-led Centre’s achievements at four out of seven parliamentary constituencies in the national capital. These include New Delhi, South, North West and West.
Former Gujarat chief minister Vijay Rupani is leading the charge at Chandni Chowk, East and North East Delhi constituencies.
Over the next five hours, Jaishankar will knock on doors belonging to Sikh refugees from Afghanistan, 1984 anti-Sikh riots victims, Indian students evacuated from Ukraine, and social media influencers across the West Delhi parliamentary constituency.
According to the BJP, Jaishankar’s outreach will begin from the Guru Arjan Dev Ji Gurdwara near Tilak Nagar at 3 pm following which he will call on Sikh refugees from Kabul, meet international photographer and Padma Shri awardee Naresh Bedi, and then Lt General S K Gulati (retired) in Rajouri Garden.
Jaishankar will then call on students evacuated from Ukraine, and social media influencers, and conclude his day with dinner at former Delhi mayor Prithviraj Sahni’s Janakpuri residence.
According to the BJP, the initiative is a constituency-wide programme which will see the external affairs minister establish contact, and disseminate information about the Modi government’s achievements among eminent citizens in the four parliamentary constituencies assigned to him.
Party sources said ongoing door-to-door visits will gradually give way to public meetings which will further aim to further the outreach sans a “VIP/non-VIP” divide.
“Be it individuals of influence who have made a mark in the field of sports, arts, defence and business, or common citizens who have ensured that their neighbours in a slum cluster have drawn maximum benefits from central government welfare schemes, everyone is on an equal footing for us,” a BJP leader said.
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