New Delhi: With less than 15 days remaining for the voting in Delhi assembly elections, Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is planning to leave no stone unturned over the next ten days. The party has rolled out an extensive campaign strategy for the upcoming polls.
BJP is planning to utilise all its senior leaders in the campaigning. Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Union Home Minister Amit Shah, and BJP National President J P Nadda are set to lead the charge.
Highlights of BJP’s campaign plan
– Participation of top leadership: PM Modi will hold three rallies, while Amit Shah and J P Nadda are scheduled to address over 18 rallies each.
– Coverage across 70 constituencies: The campaign has been planned to ensure all 70 assembly constituencies in Delhi are covered in the next 10 days.
– Central ministers deployed: Union ministers, including Dharmendra Pradhan, Bhupender Yadav, Piyush Goyal, Mansukh Mandaviya, and Gajendra Singh Shekhawat, have been assigned two constituencies each.
– Chief ministers and senior leaders: Uttar Pradesh CM Yogi Adityanath will hold 14 public meetings, with other BJP chief ministers also being deployed for the campaigning.
Grassroots focus
– Small-scale meetings: Over 4,500 meetings have already been conducted with Dalit communities, 1,700 with members of the Muslim community, and 7,500 with women across different sections. Future plans include reaching out to OBC and other caste groups.
– Local and regional leaders in action: Senior leaders from neighbouring states, including former Union minister Anurag Thakur, MP Surendra Nagar, and Rajasthan BJP leader Satish Poonia, have been deployed for campaigning.
– National general secretaries: BJP’s national general secretaries Vinod Tawde, Sunil Bansal, Tarun Chugh, and Arun Singh have also been asked to join in campaign activities.
BJP is planning to defeat incumbent AAP government, which has been in power for 10 years, and take reign of the national capital. A force in the Lok Sabha, it has been winning all seven seats for past three general elections, BJP has not been able to replicate its performance in the assembly polls. In last assembly elections the saffron party won eight constituencies. The party has also announced strong candidates against chief minister Atishi, AAP supremo Arvind Kejriwal and senior leader Manish Sisodia.
BJP in its manifesto has promised many populist measures, targeting almost all the communities.
