NEW DELHI: Delhi BJP president Harsh Vardhan on Friday called upon the party workers to now focus on work at the polling booth level and advised them to develop personal contact with each and every voter in their ward to improve the prospects of the party candidates in winning the Municipal Corporation of Delhi elections.

Addressing meetings in North East and East Delhi, Dr. Vardhan asked all the workers to prepare a list of 15 to 20 families and to contact each member of these families with the request that they vote in favour of the BJP. He said people should also be urged not to lose this opportunity to free Delhi from the grip of the Congress which has brought lakhs of people within the ambit of sealing that is due to resume on March 28.

Accusing the Congress of not really doing anything for providing relief to people through the new Master Plan for Delhi, Dr. Vardhan charged that its real intention was to drive 60 lakh people out of the city. Regretting that the people of Delhi will be casting their votes under the shadow of sealing, he said the Government has worked towards depriving lakhs of their source of livelihood.

Elsewhere, addressing meetings in South Delhi, West Delhi and Karol Bagh districts, the party in-charge Delhi affairs Vijay Kumar Malhotra took on his Congress counterpart Ashok Gehlot for stating that sealing and price rise are not issues on which the MCD elections would be fought. Claiming that prices of essential commodities have risen between 50 per cent and 300 per cent in the recent past, Prof. Malhotra said even Congress president Sonia Gandhi had stated that it was the main reason for the party's defeat in Punjab and Uttarakhand Assembly elections.

To Delhi, the BJP leader said, sealing had dealt a severe body blow as over 60,000 shops and 20,000 houses had come under its purview. Besides, demolition had also taken place in a large number of places. Prof. Malhotra said the Congress would feel the impact of its deeds in the MCD elections when people would show through their votes what they feel about its anti-people policies.

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