Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) supremo Mayawati will hold a rally here at the Ramlila Maidan near GTB hospital in North East Delhi on May 10, party’s candidate from the area Rajveer Singh said on Friday.
Mr. Singh, a marble trader from Rajouri garden, said that the party has asked him to take up an active role in the city’s politics for the next 15 years.
The BSP, which has been regularly fielding candidates in elections, got a vote share of about 5% in 2009, which dropped to about 2% in 2014. Despite this, Mr. Singh claimed that the party is getting a resounding response from the ground with locals calling upon him to attend their public meetings. “We will stop the BJP and the votes will come to us” he said.
Responding to the suggestion that the BSP’s presence would cut into the votes of AAP, he said AAP has no presence in the area, “They haven’t done anything to help people” Mr. Singh added.
While the BSP filed nominations for all seven Lok Sabha seats here, it will only be fighting five seats as affidavits of its contestants in the North West Delhi seat which is a reserved constituency, and in the New Delhi constituency were rejected.
Mr. Singh said that the party is actively fighting in all constituencies and Ms. Mayawati will undertake a rally in North East Delhi as the party’s founder Kanshi Ram had fought from the area back in 1998. At that time, delimitation of the North East constituency had not taken place.
About the 2020 Delhi assembly elections, he said that the party may not fight all 70 seats, but will target about 50 seats. He said the party would soon begin candidate selection.
