Union Home Minister and former BJP president Rajnath Singh on Saturday said that BJP parliamentary board will take a final decision on whether to project someone as party’s chief ministerial candidate in Delhi or not. There is speculation that the BJP will project former IPS officer Kiran Bedi, who has joined the party, as its chief ministerial candidate for Delhi.
Bedi herself also gave broad hint that she would be BJP’s chief ministerial candidate.“So far there is no decision. The parliamentary board will take a final call,” senior BJP leader and Home Minister Rajnath Singh told PTI.
The 12-member BJP parliamentary board includes Prime Minister Narendra Modi, BJP president Amit Shah, Home Minister Rajnath Singh, Finance Minister Arun Jaitley besides others. Singh was replying a question on the possibility of BJP projecting someone as chief ministerial candidate.
Singh, a two-time BJP president, said the party sometime projects someone as chief ministerial candidate while sometime not. “In case of Delhi, the parliamentary party will take the final decision,” he said. Elections to 70-member Delhi assembly will be held on February 7.