PM to flag off state BJP poll campaign

NEW DELHI, October 7: The Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee will flag off the Delhi BJP Assembly election campaign at the Ferozeshah Ko...

NEW DELHI, October 7: The Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee will flag off the Delhi BJP Assembly election campaign at the Ferozeshah Kotla grounds in the Capital on October 24.

Announcing this at a press conference, the BJP state chief Mange Ram Garg said, “All the 139 BJP mandals, 16 districts, municipal councillors, MLAs, the five morchas and cells have been directed to start preparations for the rally”.

In fact, the entire state BJP unit is working day and night to make the rally a success in hope that the beleaguered image of the Delhi government will be rescued by Vajpayee’s inimitable wit.

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According to party sources, Garg has issued express orders that it has to be a show of strength and each and every local leader down to the mandal level will be made responsible for getting the cheer crowds to fill the Kotla grounds.

Highlighting the BJP campaign strategy, Garg said that all the 8,600 polling booth level committees of the BJP has been activated and that these committees will be mainly instrumental in mobilising public opinion.

Five to 10 workers at every polling booth in Delhi will actively remain engaged in electioneering and meet the electorate in door-to-door campaigns.

The state party chief also announced the names of the members of two election committees. While the election campaign committee will be headed by Member of Parliament Vijay Kumar Malhotra, the former state party spokesperson O.P. Kohli will head the manifesto committee.

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The election campaign committee comprises 62 members, including all the ministers of the Sahib Singh cabinet.

In comparison, the election manifesto committee has only nine members.

Garg once again reiterated that the municipal corporators will not be given tickets in the coming polls and the five-year achievements of the BJP government in the state and the six months at Centre will be the party’s main election plank.

When asked about the spiralling onion prices, Garg argued: “It is the same everywhere in India. Onion is selling at a higher price in Madhya Pradesh and Bengal. It is the anti-farmer policies of the former government that has resulted in the crisis in onion production”.