RSS Pushes for Early Delhi Polls, Kejriwal Offers to Build Toilet in BJP Office

NEW DELHI: Encouraging reports from Maharashtra and Haryana for the BJP has re-opened the possibility of elections in Delhi. The Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh that has been in favour of elections all along has met with the BJP leaders to urge them to move towards early polls.

The collapse of the Congress party in Delhi, a state from which it has not yet recovered, leaves the Aam Aadmi party alone in the role of the opposition. AAP has been concentrating on Delhi, with its cadres insisting that there has been no let up in their campaign, particularly in the rural and poorer parts of the state. AAP president Arvind Kejriwal told The Citizen earlier that he was confident of coming back to power, as the people had realised that the BJP would not deliver their aspirations.

Kejriwal has now offered to construct a toilet at the BJP’s Delhi party office as despite Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s campaign for toilets across the country, these facilities are not available for the party’s women workers. Kejriwal, characteristically, has written to the chairperson of the New Delhi Municipal Council offering to use his MLA LOcal Area Development fund for the construction of the toilet.

The encouraging reports suggesting a BJP sweep in Maharashtra and Haryana have emboldened the party to take on the AAP in Delhi as well, using the “Modi magic” through a series of meetings in its favour. The party has already started equating the central government longevity, with the peoples support for the party in the states with Delhi being projected as crucial to this. Despite some assessments to the contrary, the BJP still has goodwill and support in Delhi that it hopes to encash as and when it goes in for elections.

PM Modi is placing the number of seats for the party in the Maharashtra elections at 165. The tirade against the BJP by the Thackeray cousins, joined in by the NCP and the Congress has not worked to reduce the Modi flavour that the party is clearly hoping to cash in on. Delhi and Jammu and Kashmir thus are now clearly in the early queue.