Bawana bypoll: Candidates go door to door to woo voters

Tribune News Service

New Delhi, August 12

The canvassing for the Bawana bypoll is gradually intensifying with the three prominent political parties — BJP, AAP and the Congress — going all out to woo voters during their door-to-door campaigns.

Both the BJP and the Congress are confident of winning the seat while the AAP, too, is leaving no stone unturned to reclaim the support it lost in outer areas of the national Capital as evident from the municipal elections this year.

The Bawana seat fell vacant after the then AAP MLA, Ved Prakash, resigned from the assembly and party in March. Prakash joined the BJP and was fielded as the party candidate in the bypoll slated for August 23.

Prakash will take on AAP nominee Ramchandra, a former Bahujan Samaj Party candidate for the seat while the Congress is pinning its hopes on its three-time legislator MLA Surender Kumar from the constituency.

BJP president Manoj Tiwari today addressed four public meetings apart from doing a road show and door-to-door campaigning in Bawana, Rohini C (Shahbad) and Puth Khurd municipal wards of the Bawana constituency.

On the other side, the Congress is hoping to open its account in the AAP-led Delhi Assembly with its workers making door-to-door visits in Bawana to seek the votes on the basis of the achievements of the Congress governments.

The ruling AAP is too has started campaigning aggressively with its state unit head and minister Gopal Rai busy in long hours of campaigning in the constituency.