While the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is yet to announce the chief ministerial candidate as Assembly elections in Delhi are approaching, Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal took a dig and said the saffron party has seven chief ministerial candidates for the upcoming Delhi Assembly elections.
This came a day after Kejriwal’s Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) tweeted an image of a poster wishing a “very Happy New Year to all seven Chief Minister candidates of
Delhi BJP Gautam Gambhir, Manoj Tiwari, Vijay Goel, Hardeep Singh Puri, Harsh Vardhan, Vijender Gupta and Parvesh Singh”.
“But the question is who will contest against Arvind Kejriwal,” the party had asked in it tweet.
“The BJP has seven chief ministerial candidates for Delhi. Assembly elections in Delhi would be fought on the basis of work done,” Kejriwal said at his fourth town hall meeting in east Delhi’s Trilokpuri.
Replying to a question about the AAP’s defeat in last year’s general elections, he said Lok Sabha and Vidhan Sabha elections are very different from each other.
“Prime Minister Narendra Modi cannot become the chief minister of Delhi,” he added.
The Delhi elections have to be held before February 22, when the term of the current legislative Assembly ends.