With just eight days left for campaigning, the BJP on Tuesday officially announced that its star campaigner Prime Minister Narendra Modi would hold four rallies in the national Capital between January 31 and February 4.
Meanwhile, after candidates lodged a complaint, councillors from the party have got a strict warning from top leadership to cooperate with nominees and campaign in full swing irrespective of grudges. Poll management meetings of the party shall be convened by top leaders like Union Finance Minister Arun Jaitley apart from Union Power Minister Piyush Goyal.
BJP national secretary and in-charge of rallies, Anil Jain informed that the first rally would take place on January 31 at the CBD Ground in the East Delhi’s Shahdara area, while the second will be held February 1 in Dwarka Sector 14. likewise, a rally would be held at Rohini’s Japanese Park on February 3 and on February 4 at Ambedkar Nagar’s Virat Cinema ground. The rally to be held in South Delhi seeks to target residents of unauthorised colonies in and around Ambedkar Nagar and neighbouring Deoli and Sangam Vihar areas.
The party has asked all seven party MPs from the national Capital to ensure huge gathering of voters at each rally of the Prime Minister to make them a success. “BJP leader Parvesh Sahib Singh Verma, who is an MP from West Delhi, has been asked to look after the preparations of Modi’s rallies to be held in his constituency. Besides, South Delhi MP Ramesh Bidhuri will oversee the preparations of PM’s rally in South district. BJP MPs have clearly been asked to ensure good attendance of voters at the venues,” said State unit president Satish Upadhyay.
likewise, Sushma Swaraj would campaign in Sangam Vihar, Deoli, Ambedkar Nagar and Mehrauli. Kiran Bedi would campaign at Gandhi Nagar, Shahdara, Karol Bagh, Patel Nagar and Rajender Nagar. Similarly, Union Minister Smriti Irani would do the campaigning at Bawana, Mundka, Sultanpur Majra and Rithala. Actor Paresh Rawal would campaign in New Delhi.
According to BJP leaders, Union Cabinet Ministers like Ravi Shankar Prasad, Nirmala Sitharaman, Arun Jaitley, Rajnath Singh, Nitin Gadkari, M Venkaiah Naidu and Rajiv Pratap Rudy, Kiran Bedi will also campaign for the BJP in the national Capital.
Modi had addressed the residents of Ambedkar Nagar ahead of the 2013 elections as well, but Aam Aadmi Party’s Ashok Kumar Chouhan defeated the BJP candidate from the constituency, Khushi Ram Chunar. However, this time, Chouhan is the BJP candidate from the locality after switching loyalties in December last year. Modi had addressed a rally at the Ramlila Maidan earlier this month.