With just a week to go for polls and brewing differences within its State unit, Delhi BJP chief Satish Upadhyay on Friday wrote a strong letter asking local leaders to “unite” and has warned that they will “regret their inactivity all their life.”
In a sign of the party’s desperation to get its act together in the last lap of the Delhi elections, to be held in eight days, Upadhyay has appealed to the leaders of the State unit to “forget differences” and work to ensure a win for the party.
The letter indicates that many of Delhi’s stalwarts have been in a deep sulk over former top cop Kiran Bedi being para-dropped earlier this month as the party’s chief ministerial candidate and their reported lassitude and disinterest in supporting her has the party worried. The letter was written a few days after Kiran Bedi’s anointment.
The BJP is also reportedly worried that Bedi, who joined the party and politics only a few days ago, has been unable to draw the kind of crowds that her main rival Arvind Kejriwal has been drawing.
On Thursday, BJP chief Amit Shah called in the troops to Delhi, deploying a battalion of BJP’s top Ministers and
lawmakers to campaign in the Capital.
