To connect with people of Assembly seat ahead of the crucial bypoll, Delhi unit of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) fielded Jat leaders from neighbouring Haryana to attract Jat votes. Captain Abhimanyu, the Finance Minister of Haryana and Chaudhary Birendra Singh, the Union Minister campaigned for BJP candidate Ved Prakash.
Since, the constituency is Jat dominated, the BJP launched its familiar Jat faces to establish a chord with the locals. On August 23, over 2 lakh people will vote to elect their new representative for Bawana Assembly seat.
The BJP leaders claimed that over 20 thousand people attended its Mahapanchayat on Sunday. The BJP leaders and office bearers joined a large force of over 1,795 booth workers of 379 polling booths and another over 2,000 local workers of Nangal Thakran, Bawana, Pooth Khurd, Rohini C, Rohini D and Begumpur wards of Bawana Assembly constituency in a hectic door to door padyatra campaigning for the ensuing bypoll apart from holding two big rallies
Delhi BJP president Manoj Tiwari, Union Minister Birendra Singh, Captain Abhimanyu and Pandit Ram Bilas Sharma took part in Padyatra to convince the voters.
Union Steel Minister Ch Birendra Singh said people of Bawana look forward to reap benefits from the schemes and programmes launched by the Prime Minister Narendra Modi especially those for farmers, rural poor and dalits like their brethren in Haryana. "After winning the Assembly seat, our MlA will ensure that the youth of the area get benefits from Mudra loan and Kaushal Vikas schemes," said Singh.
Addressing the locals in Bawana, Captain Abhimanyu said that he has found that instead of local population those shifting here for commercial purposes have benefited more from development works in last two decades.
leader of Opposition in Delhi Assembly Vijender Gupta said that the Bawana people can trust on the BJP as not only the local leaders but the entire BJP team will fight to ensure better civic amenities in JJ Clusters, Resettlement Colonies, unauthorised Colonies and villages especially sewerage and water supply.
Manoj Tiwari said people of Bawana reposed high faith in us by electing BJP Councilors in 4 out of 6 wards in the Assembly area and with the kind of response. "I have been getting in the campaign of last few days here the victory of the BJP Candidate seems a foregone conclusion," said Tiwari.