Sangh army joins BJP in final push

100,000 VOLUNTEERS FROM RSS-AFFILIATED GROUPS WILL CAMPAIGN FOR THE BJP IN HOUSES, SCHOOLS, SLUMS AND ON THE STREETS OF DELHI

NEW DELHI: As the BJP makes a final push for power in Delhi, the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh has decided to send in reinforcements. With a week of campaign time left, an army of volunteers from Sangh-affiliated bodies are set to tap voters in their homes, parents in schools, joggers in parks and bombard them on email and Whatsapp in the coming days.

This comes just a day after the BJP pulled out all the stops by deploying 120 MPs for its campaign for the February 7 polls, and amid surveys claiming the party was neck and neck with a resurgent Aam Aadmi Party.

‘Mission Delhi’, sources said, was launched after a meeting at RSS headquarters Monday where it was decided that all allied organisations — including students’ wing Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP), trade union wing Bharatiya Majdoor Sangh, Sewa Bharti and Vidya Bharti — would mobilise voters across Delhi.

“Sarsanghchalak ji (RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat) in his Vijayadashami address in Nagpur urged all swayamsevaks to ensure 100% polling in favour of the political party with a nationalistic vision. In the Delhi elections, the RSS and allied organisations are mobilising one lakh volunteers. This is in addition to the BJP workers and volunteers,” said Rajiv Tully, RSS prant prachaar pramukh for Delhi.

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