In a bid to consolidate its political foothold in the national capital, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has intensified its campaign against the ruling Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) government, focusing on what it termed as public discontent and the promise of a ‘double struggle’. engine government” to transform Delhi. The BJP’s election office for the upcoming Delhi Assembly elections was inaugurated at the Pant Marg headquarters of the party’s state unit on Saturday in the presence of senior leaders.
The slogan ‘Ab Nahi Sahenge, Badal Kar Rahenge’ (will not tolerate now, will bring change) as the theme for the manifesto feedback exercise was given by Panda on this occasion. BJP leaders during their speech said that the people of Delhi have had enough and now want to remove AAP from power to get relief from dirty water supply, damaged roads, expensive electricity and high pollution levels.
Delhi BJP chief Virendra Sachdeva performed a ‘havan’ along with his wife with party’s state election chairman Baijayant Panda, Election Coordination Committee Chairman and Union Minister Harsh Malhotra, MPs, Ramvir Singh Bidhuri, Manoj Tiwari, Kamaljeet Sehrawat, Bansuri Swaraj, Yogendra Chandolia, Praveen Khandelwal and others present.
Delhi BJP president Virendra Sachdeva, while addressing party workers and the press, said there was an “overriding sense of discontent among the people of Delhi”.
Reacting to the poster released by the BJP on Saturday, which reads: ‘Ab nahi sahenge, badal ke rahenge (We will not tolerate anymore, we will bring change)’, Sachdeva noted that this was the slogan of the people.
This is the slogan of the people of Delhi. When we were preparing the manifesto, engaging with the people and meeting traders and residents’ welfare associations, and talking to the general public, including those living in slums, everyone shared the same opinion: they want to be free of Arvind Kejriwal. They will no longer tolerate him and want change,” Sachdeva said.
He further emphasized that this dissatisfaction has turned into a collective call for change. “It is from this sentiment that the call for change has arisen – we will not tolerate this any longer, we will bring change and we will form the BJP government in Delhi,” he added.
The BJP has built its campaign around the idea of aligning Delhi’s governance with Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s policies and vision.
“The people of Delhi understand that only a government with two engines, one in the state and the other at the Centre, can bring real development to the national capital,” Sachdeva stated, asserting that Delhi’s improvement will create synergy between the local and central governments required. .
Panda and other leaders also roped in a fleet of vans that will tour Delhi to collect public feedback for the party manifesto for the Assembly elections.
“All the vans flagged off from the BJP office in Delhi will travel to 14 different districts where BJP workers will be present. A person responsible has been appointed for each van, depending on the district in question. Public suggestions will be collected in suggestion boxes placed in these vans and based on these suggestions, the BJP will prepare its Sankalp Patra for the upcoming 2025 Assembly elections,” Panda said. Sankalp Committee Chairman and Member of Parliament Mr. Ramveer Singh Bidhuri stated that the committee will prepare a better and more comprehensive Sankalp Patra (resolution document).
Elections to the 70-member Delhi Assembly will be held in February next year. The BJP, which has been in power in Delhi since 1998, is doing everything it can to end the dominance of the Aam Aadmi Party led by Arvind Kejriwal.
Meanwhile, AAP supremo Kejriwal, in a caustic remark on the BJP’s slogan, claimed that the opposition party’s ‘will bring change’ motto reflected its intention to stop all work of his party’s government in Delhi. In a post on X he said: “They officially announced today that they will change everything. It means that the 24 hour electricity supply will stop and there will be long power cuts with bills of thousands of rupees, free bus travel for women There will be an end, all the schools will be destroyed, the Mohalla clinics will be closed and the free medicines and treatments will be stopped.” He asked people to vote carefully as the BJP has now made its intentions clear.
