NEW DELHI: Unlike the last assembly elections in Delhi where BJP focused on national issues like Citizenship (Amendment) Act, National Register of Citizens and Ram Mandir, the party will fight the upcoming polls on local issues of roads , water and sanitation. Senior functionaries in the Delhi unit of the saffron party said poll preparations had started with discussions and meetings, including one with the central leadership.
A senior party member said, "Our internal feedback and surveys repeatedly show that Delhiites in certain areas are unhappy with roads, the water supply is erratic during summers, there is waterlogging in the monsoons and in winter, pollution is a big problem. So the party decided to take up pani, sadak, hawa as the three basic things to counter AAP on."
At the recent meeting, the national leadership, among them party national president JP Nadda, Union home minister Amit Shah and defence minister Rajnath Singh, had enquired about the issues relevant to the elections and sought the local leaders' views on the strategy. The central leadership also asked for a survey to gauge public sentiment in Delhi. Delhi functionaries said that as the polling and campaigning approached, more such meetings with central leaders would be held regularly.
The assembly elections are scheduled for Feb next year. AAP won the state elections for three consecutive terms, winning 62 seats out of 70 in the last polls in 2020, when BJP triumphed in eight seats and Congress in none.
It is a change in strategy from focusing on national issues to local issues, in which the main campaign will be against AAP's sitting MLAs. Full scale campaign will start after Diwali with BJP having already designated the people it has put in charge of the various aspects. On Tuesday, the party put MP Baijayant Jay Panda, one of its national vice-presidents, in charge of the Delhi elections . Ghaziabad MP Atul Garg will be the co-in-charge.
A senior functionary said, "Our outreach in the jhuggis is already under way." He said that BJP conducted a membership drive in 252 slum clusters in which party stalwarts, including Union minister Harsh Malhotra, state president Virendra Sachdeva and former minister Smriti Irani took part.
The party also plans to undertake a 'parivartan yatra' in each of the 70 assembly constituencies. The date for the campaign is, however, yet to be decided, but it is likely to begin after Diwali. In the yatra, BJP plans to corner the Arvind Kejriwal-led AAP over corruption and issues like the poor condition of roads, drains, water supply and "inflated" power bills.
A senior party member said, "Our internal feedback and surveys repeatedly show that Delhiites in certain areas are unhappy with roads, the water supply is erratic during summers, there is waterlogging in the monsoons and in winter, pollution is a big problem. So the party decided to take up pani, sadak, hawa as the three basic things to counter AAP on."
At the recent meeting, the national leadership, among them party national president JP Nadda, Union home minister Amit Shah and defence minister Rajnath Singh, had enquired about the issues relevant to the elections and sought the local leaders' views on the strategy. The central leadership also asked for a survey to gauge public sentiment in Delhi. Delhi functionaries said that as the polling and campaigning approached, more such meetings with central leaders would be held regularly.
The assembly elections are scheduled for Feb next year. AAP won the state elections for three consecutive terms, winning 62 seats out of 70 in the last polls in 2020, when BJP triumphed in eight seats and Congress in none.
It is a change in strategy from focusing on national issues to local issues, in which the main campaign will be against AAP's sitting MLAs. Full scale campaign will start after Diwali with BJP having already designated the people it has put in charge of the various aspects. On Tuesday, the party put MP Baijayant Jay Panda, one of its national vice-presidents, in charge of the Delhi elections . Ghaziabad MP Atul Garg will be the co-in-charge.
A senior functionary said, "Our outreach in the jhuggis is already under way." He said that BJP conducted a membership drive in 252 slum clusters in which party stalwarts, including Union minister Harsh Malhotra, state president Virendra Sachdeva and former minister Smriti Irani took part.
The party also plans to undertake a 'parivartan yatra' in each of the 70 assembly constituencies. The date for the campaign is, however, yet to be decided, but it is likely to begin after Diwali. In the yatra, BJP plans to corner the Arvind Kejriwal-led AAP over corruption and issues like the poor condition of roads, drains, water supply and "inflated" power bills.
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