BJP, AAP step up MCD pitch with roadshows

NEW DELHI: The national capital was the stage for heavy duty rallies on Sunday, two weeks before Delhi votes in the December 4 municipal polls, with the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) kicking off their campaigns.

A host of senior BJP leaders and chief ministers took out rallies and roadshows on Sunday, in a bid to drum up support for the party, which governed the city’s municipal bodies for three straight terms. The party saw campaigns by BJP chief JP Nadda, Union ministers Rajnath Singh, Hardeep Singh Puri, Jitendra Singh and Gajendra Singh Shekhawat, Assam chief minister Himanta Biswa Sarma, as well as his Haryana and Uttarakhand counterparts, Manohar Lal Khat

tar and Pushkar Singh Dhami.

In turn, AAP chief and Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal, who earlier on Sunday tweeted that the BJP was “going to attack

Delhi”, launched his party’s campaign in the race to the Civic Centre with the slogan “Sarkar Kejriwal Ki, Parshad Kejriwal Ka”.

ANI BJP national president JP Nadda with party leaders during a roadshow ahead of the MCD elections, in New Delhi on Sunday.