BJP to release vision document for Delhi elections, not manifesto
The decision was taken at a meeting chaired by BJP president Amit Shah, during which various aspects relating to election campaign were discussed
New Delhi: The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Thursday announced that it will not come out with any manifesto for the Delhi assembly polls that is scheduled to be held on 7 February and, instead, will release a vision document for the city in a day or two which will “feature a road map for development and welfare of the people".
The decision was taken at a meeting chaired by BJP president Amit Shah, during which various aspects relating to election campaign were discussed.
“We will not release a party’s manifesto for the Delhi assembly election this time. Instead, we will come out with a vision document. The party has set a target to win the upcoming polls," Union minister for chemicals and fertilizers Ananth Kumar said after the meeting.
He said the party will have 120 members of Parliament (MPs) campaigning for the Delhi elections in the next few days.
On being asked why the BJP is fielding almost all its ministers and MPs, the BJP leader said, “We want to win this election with two-thirds majority, and it will be our historic victory. We will go to this election with full strength."
Kumar said more than 120,000 booth in-charges have been roped in to campaign and apprise people about the BJP’s plans for the city.
Shah, meanwhile, pulled up a number of senior leaders of the party’s Delhi unit for a “lacklustre" campaign and sternly told them to put up a united fight.
In a meeting attended by several Union ministers besides Delhi BJP leaders, Shah directed them to go “full throttle" to defeat the Arvind Kejriwal-led Aam Aadmi Party.
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