Gearing up to contest the Gurugram municipal polls to be held on September 24, the Bharatiya Janta Party on Tuesday convened a high-level meeting to chalk out its election strategy.
The meeting which was held in New Delhi was attended by Chief Minister Manohar lal, BJP incharge for Haryana affairs Anil Jain, Haryana BJP chief Subhash Barala, Union cabinet ministers belonging to Haryana and cabinet ministers of State Government.
The Chief Minister had on Sunday made it clear that the BJP will contest the Gurugram MC elections on party symbol.
After the meeting, a senior party leader said that a screening committee under the chairmanship of Subhash Barala has been constituted to decide on the candidates for Gurugram MC polls. The committee also included Union Cabinet Minister Krishan Pal Gurjar , Haryana Minister OP Dhankar, senior BJP leader Nirmal Bairagi, he said.
The party has decided to contest the MC election on the issues of development and providing corruption free governance, said the party leader.
After recording landslide victories in the elections for the Municipal Corporation of Faridabad earlier this year and Haryana’s capital Chandigarh last year, the BJP is now eyeing to record a victory in Gurugram MC polls. There are as many as 5,57,967 voters, including 2,92,462 males and 2,65,505 females, in the MC Gurugram. As many as 18 of the 35 wards of the MC Gurugram are reserved- four for SC members, two each for SC women and BC and 10 for women candidates.
The results of MCG elections will also be announced the same day on September 24.
The civic polls for the millennium city are being conducted after a delay of over one year. The tenure of elected representatives of MCG had ended on June 21 last year.
While BJP and INlD will contest the MC polls on party symbol, the Congress has announced that it will not contest the Gurugram elections on its party symbol.