As electioneering enters the last leg in the national Capital ahead of December 4 polls, the BJP will be holding over 200 public meetings and rallies across the city over the next couple of weeks.
The top BJP hierarchy, including Chief Ministers of BJP-ruled States will be camping in the national Capital seeking votes for the party. To begin with, BJP’s prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi will be addressing a rally in South West Delhi’s Dwarka on November 23. This will be followed by a series of public meetings on November 30 and December 1.
The list of 40 star campaigners for the BJP also include party president Rajnath Singh, senior leaders lal Krishna Advani, Arun Jaitley, Sushma Swaraj, Nitin Gadkari and Murli Manohar Joshi, among others. While Advani will address rallies on November 25 and 29, Rajnath will be campaigning on November 25, 29 and December 1.
leader of Opposition in lok Sabha Sushma Swaraj will be campaigning for six days — November 27-30 and December 1-2. leaders from other States like UP, Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh and Bihar will also be campaigning to woo lakhs of migrants, particularly the Poorvanchalis in the Capital. A host of BJP leaders from Bihar, including Shahnawaz Hussain, Ravi Shankar Prasad, Shatrughan Sinha, Rajiv Pratap Rudy and Sushil Kumar Modi, among others will be holding public meetings in the Capital.
While campaigning, the BJP has also taken care of the glamour quotient. The BJP leaders coming in from the film and sports fraternity like Navjot Singh Sidhu, Hema Malini, Smriti Irani, Vinod Khanna and Kirron Kher too will be seeking votes for party candidates. A senior BJP leader said Uma Bharti and Varun Gandhi too have agreed to address public meetings in the Capital during the last week of November.
The Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan and his Chhattisgarh counterpart Dr Raman Singh too will be seeking votes for BJP candidates.