Victory in Bawana by-election within reach, says BJP

Delhi party chief claims candidate a man of ‘high integrity and clean politics’

NEW DELHI, 05/08/2017: Ved Prakash, BJP Candidate from Bawana By-Poll seen during a roadshow before filing his nomination for the seat, in New Delhi on Saturday. Photo: Sushil Kumar Verma

Victory for the BJP in the upcoming Bawana Assembly by-poll is well within reach, said the party’s Delhi chief Manoj Tiwari on the sidelines of hectic campaigning for their candidate Ved Prakash at the rural constituency here on Saturday.

Public meetings

Mr. Tiwari addressed four public meetings apart from being at the helm of a road show and door-to-door campaigning in Bawana, Rohini-C (Shahbad) and the Puth Khurd municipal ward areas of the Bawana Assembly constituency drawing significant footfall.

The north-east Delhi MP was accompanied by Mr. Prakash and other party leaders — including Abhay Verma, Neel Daman Khatri, Rajesh Gehlot, Manoj Shaukeen, Parvesh Wahi, Ashish Sood, Vijay Bhagat, Brahm Prakesh, Anju Aman and Mohan Lal Gihara, amongst others.

“People of all communities residing in Bawana, especially the original residents of villages, the scheduled castes and the poorvanchalis settled in resettlement clusters and other colonies are extending vast support to the BJP and our victory in this by-poll will lead to the fall of Arvind Kejriwal government,” Mr. Tiwari said.

‘Modi rath’

He said that the people of Bawana, especially those belonging to the scheduled castes, were in “wholehearted” support of Mr. Prakash whom, he claimed, was hailed as a man of “high integrity and clean politics” in view of his decision to quit the Aam Aadmi Party, forsaking half his tenure as the local MLA.

Hoping to ensure that the “Modi rath” continues its journey forward sans the slightest impediment, party insiders said the by-election was being viewed “with as much seriousness” as the Delhi Assembly elections in 2020 “as a whole.”