New Delhi:
Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) had intensified the public relations campaign much before the announcement of Delhi Assembly elections. On this basis, it hopes that its performance will improve in the assembly seats dominated by Dalits. 12 seats are reserved for Scheduled Castes in the 70-member Delhi Assembly. In the last two assembly elections, Aam Aadmi Party has won all these 12 seats. BJP’s best performance on seats reserved for SCs in Delhi was in 1993, when it won eight out of 13 seats. In Delhi, Congress has won all these seats once and Aam Aadmi Party twice in a row. .
Mathematics of Dalit votes in Delhi
Apart from the 12 seats reserved for SCs in Delhi, there are about two and a half dozen such seats on which the voters of Dalit community range from 17 to 45 percent. According to BJP leaders, apart from the 12 reserved seats, there are 18 other seats including Rajendra Nagar, Chandni Chowk, Adarsh ​​Nagar, Shahdara, Tughlakabad, Bijwasan, where the votes of the Scheduled Caste community are up to 25 percent. BJP has set a target of winning these seats. BJP has worked on these seats for the last several months.
BJP leaders discussing preparations for Delhi Assembly elections.
In the last few months, an extensive outreach campaign has been carried out through Scheduled Caste workers in the slums and unauthorized colonies of these 30 constituencies. Delhi BJP Scheduled Caste Morcha President Mohan Lal Gihara said that senior Scheduled Caste activists were appointed as vistaraks for focused outreach among the community members on all these 30 seats. Deployed 10 Dalit youth at each polling station to contact individuals in different localities and residential areas in the areas. He said the BJP has identified more than 5,600 such polling stations, of which Special attention has been given to more than 1,900 booths.
What are BJP’s preparations for Dalit dominated seats?
Party leaders said that a network of over 18 thousand active workers will be involved in the entire exercise to communicate with the voters and convince them about the work done by the Modi government for the community and the failures of the 10-year rule of the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP). He said that in the second phase, BJP included 55 big Dalit leaders of the party. These include former Union Ministers and MPs from Uttar Pradesh, Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh and Haryana. He said that continuous rounds of meetings were organized in these constituencies.
The BJP leader said that apart from this, to further strengthen the contacts, about three and a half thousand people of the community, identified as key voters with political influence in the neighbourhood, were contacted. BJP started organizing Scheduled Caste Swabhiman Sammelan in these constituencies from December to honor political influential people, professionals and prominent locals of the community.
Gihara said, “So far 15 such conferences have been organized and a senior BJP leader has been present in each. There was a lot of support from the community in these big meetings, with 1,500-2,500 ordinary members of the Dalit community participating in each meeting.
Voting for the 70-member Delhi Assembly will be held in a single phase on February 5. The results will be declared after counting of votes on February 8.
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