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Vardhan to remain Delhi BJP president till Assembly elections

Gaurav Vivek Bhatnagar

Delhi BJP president Harsh Vardhan

NEW DELHI: Delhi Bharatiya Janata Party president Harsh Vardhan will now lead the party into the next State Assembly elections due in 2008. He was called by the party’s national president Rajnath Singh on Monday and informed that the election for the post of Delhi BJP president had been postponed till further notice and that until then he would continue in the post.

The development has put an end to the tussle for the post which had seen the likes of former Union Minister Vijay Goel, Leader of the Opposition in Delhi Assembly Jagdish Mukhi and Dr. Vardhan pitted against each other. Since there was opposition to the candidature of Mr. Goel from senior party leader Vijay Kumar Malhotra and Prof. Mukhi did not find much favour with the senior party leaders, Dr. Vardhan was found the best suited to lead the party into the next Assembly elections.

The decision was formally conveyed to the Delhi unit of the party by the Central leadership at a meeting convened on Tuesday evening at the Delhi BJP headquarters.

Interestingly, the move comes at a time when an internal assessment of the Municipal Corporation of Delhi elections by the Delhi BJP has revealed that while its final tally of 164 was short of the expected 200, it had won overall in all the seven Parliamentary constituencies and in as many as 50 Delhi Assembly constituencies through the new delimitation plan and in 55 Assembly segments as per the old plan.

Dr. Vardhan said he would continue to work for the party and highlight the failures of the Congress Government in Delhi over the past nine years. “I had said before that MCD elections were quarter-finals, Assembly elections will be the semi-finals, and the Lok Sabha elections will be finals. With that the Congress will be completely wiped out.”

On his priorities, Dr. Vardhan said he is working towards strengthening the party at the polling booth level: “We now also have a new team in all the mandals (blocks) and districts. And now I would work towards taking all the party leaders and workers along to oust this corrupt Congress regime from Delhi.”

Dr. Vardhan said the plan of actions would involve identifying the main problems of the people, taking them up with the authorities and of staging protests whenever they are not resolved.

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