LS polls: Nitin Gadkari scouting for competent candidates in Delhi

The party’s brainstorming session over the announcement of probable candidates continued till late night on Tuesday. During the party’s meeting, Gadkari collected details related to all candidates including MLAs, defeated candidates, areas of their representation, information regarding district presidents and scrutinized their claim for candidature from close quarters.

Delhi Lok Sabha polls are a matter of prestige for Nitin Gadkari as he has been given the responsibility of taking care of party’s affairs in the national capital. Overall, he has not been able to deliver the party an absolute majority during the Assembly polls as well. In order to make up for this unfinished agenda, the former saffron party chief is trying out possible trick in his sleeve to ensure BJP’s victory in the national capital’s seven Lok Sabha seats.

It’s mainly due to this very reason, he wants to have a proper look into the names of candidates and gauge their winnability before sending the list to party’s parliamentary board.

Several leaders, willing to contest elections also claimed their stakes before Gadkari. Now it remains to be seen, what would be the party’s decision during its parliamentary board meeting, scheduled to be held on 13th March.

During the meet, Gadkari asked the party leaders and workers to discharge their duties in proper co-ordination with each other so that its effect can have an impact during the elections as well.

JPN/Bureau

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Kejriwal keeps AAP’s big guns away from Delhi

One of Kejriwal’s close aides, Kumar Vishwas is working at length in Amethi after he was given ticket to take on Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi. Similarly, other senior leaders like Gopal Rai, Shazia Ilmi and Sanjay Singh have also been kept away from Delhi.

In Delhi, most of the AAP candidates for the LS elections were common party workers till few days back, who worked really hard in their areas to create a name for themselves.

AAP had already made it clear that they won’t give LS tickets to their sitting MLAs from Delhi and that is why senior leader Manish Sisodia had been kept away from the Delhi Lok Sabha elections.

There were speculations that contrary to their party principles, Kejriwal and Ilmi might contest elections from South Delhi and New Delhi constituencies but once AAP released its fourth list on Monday, the matter was settled.

The top leaders from AAP, who are close to Kejriwal, would be working to strengthen the organization at the grass root level.  Their responsibility would also include creating a wave in favour of their LS candidates in Delhi.

(JPN/Bureau)

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