NEW DELHI: Taking a cue from the Aam Aadmi Party’s (AAP) style of politics which had apparently brought them back to power, the BJP in Delhi has decided to go on a door-to-door campaign.
While AAP supremo and Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal along with his ministers are busy in the Punjab and Goa elections, the state BJP is busy targeting the slums— the core vote bank of AAP.
The saffron party has also planned to focus on New Delhi— the CM’s constituency— while he is away. On Saturday, Delhi BJP chief Manoj Tiwari convened a meeting to address public grievances in the area. Sources claimed other top BJP leaders from the capital will also meet people living in different constituencies.
“Since the last one week, we have been asked to expose Kejriwal as he left Delhi to campaign in Punjab. Our task is to expose his fake claims; his party has given the same promises to the people of Punjab as to those in Delhi,” a BJP leader claimed. On Friday, the saffron party also started a “Pol-Khol” campaign.
Ahead of the MCD elections, the BJP has started appeasing people from the backward communities. It organised a conference of Other Backward Classes, playing on the discrimination angle.
Tiwari made an announcement of 35 office-bearers, ahead of the upcoming civic polls and also appointed Shazia Ilmi—who had deserted AAP to join BJP—as the vice-president. He also visited slum areas across the city-state.
Meanwhile, it seems the AAP has no direct focus on the MCD polls even as it is neck deep in the upcoming Punjab and Goa elections. Refusing BJP’s claims, AAP Delhi convener Dilip Pandey said their government is in touch with the people and are working at the ground level.
“Instead of peeping into others’ houses, Manoj Tiwari should visit his own parliamentary constituency and check how the people are suffering. The AAP government is working with the people. Our party has understood the people’s anger over the years and hopefully, Delhi will sweep the jhaadu again and throw out the BJP from MCD,” he exclaimed.