NDA MPs tasked with mass contact for Delhi elections from Feb 1-3
Five days before ahead the Delhi Assembly elections, the BJP on Friday launched a massive micro-mobilisation plan, tasking every ruling NDA minister and MP with one constituency each in the national capital.
Sources told The Tribune that as of Friday, internal BJP surveys pegged its seats in Delhi at 25 as against the ruling AAP’s 35. The Delhi Assembly has 70 seats.
BJP strategists believe that a last minute push could decide the winner of Delhi, with voters appearing to be in the fringes in at least 15 segments, where margins between victory and loss in the previous polls were slim.
“The party that manages to bring the voters out in its favour will win. When we started this fight in Delhi, the AAP was way ahead of us. Today, we can say we are neck and neck and can race ahead with clear strategy,” a BJP source said.
BJP president JP Nadda and party national general secretary organisation BL Santosh on Friday sat down with NDA ministers and MPs and issued them detailed instructions on ways to mass mobilise.
Every minister and MP has been assigned a mandal in every Assembly constituency of Delhi.
“Mandal is a BJP organisational unit within each Assembly segment and part of its poll micro-management plan,” a senior leader said.
“In the assigned mandal, the MPs have to do three exercises — door-to-door campaign on February 1, 2 and 3. February 2, being a Sunday, we urge you all to remain in Delhi and not return to home constituencies; also conduct multiple group meetings in assigned mandal,” instructions issued by Nadda and Santosh to each NDA MP read.
This set of instructions, which The Tribune has accessed, also asks the MPs to post only Delhi election-related news on their social media handles until February 5.
“We should conduct meetings of all Delhi voters, who reside in our homes and bungalows, and convince them to vote for the BJP and NDA. We have to call linguistic and community leaders, originally from our home states, and urge their support for the NDA candidates,” the instructions read. The set of dos also says that MPs have to call all workers from their home segments and states to conduct a telephonic engagement with all Delhi voters they know.
