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BJP, BJS release first lists

Staff Reporter

Efforts made to select the best workers: Harsh Vardhan

NEW DELHI: The Bharatiya Janata Party on Thursday released its first list of 181 candidates for the Municipal Corporation of Delhi elections.

The day also saw Bharatiya Jan Shakti led by former BJP leader Madan Lal Khurana releasing its first list of 91 candidates.

Releasing the BJP list that includes as many as 70 women, party Delhi unit president Harsh Vardhan exhorted all workers to become active now to ensure the victory of the candidates. "These elections are a matter of life and death for the people of Delhi," he said. "Efforts had been made to select the best workers."

Stating that the committee had selected the candidates who were most capable of winning the election, Dr. Vardhan said the services of workers who had not been fielded would be utilised at other places.

Dr. Vardhan said the BJP if voted to power would provide a clean, healthy and honest administration to the people of Delhi. Also, he declared, that MCD would be made more accountable to the people. Initially the party had decided to release the list at a press conference at the State headquarters on Pandit Pant Marg at 5 p.m., it released the list without any show as it apprehended trouble. During the day, former Delhi Chief Minister and Bharatiya Jan Shakti working president Madan Lal Khurana, who had been expelled by the BJP, released a joint list of the 91 BJS candidates and nine Indian National Lok Dal candidates in the presence of INLD leader Ajay Chautala. Mr Khurana said the list had four Scheduled Caste and eight women candidates.

The list was announced after a meeting of the Core Group comprising Mr Khurana, Chandraraj Singhvi, Begraj Khatana and Delhi unit president Rajendra Gupta.

Stating that the BJS would fight the polls along with the INLD on its election symbol of spectacles, Mr. Khurana said all sections of society had been given representation by the BJS.

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