New Delhi: After sweeping all seven seats in Delhi with some of the largest victory margins seen in this Lok Sabha elections, the saffron party seems to have its sights set on forming the government in Delhi by winning the Assembly elections, in which the Capital will go to polls sometime in February next year.
Delhi BJP president Manoj Tiwari on Monday sounded the clarion call for party workers to start working on the assembly polls next year, saying that Delhiites want education, health, transportation facilities, control in traffic and pollution, and other services. "This is only possible if a single party holds the government on all three levels (Centre, State, and Municipal), he said.
Tiwari, who defeated veteran Congress leader Sheila Dikshit by a margin of more than 3.5 lakh votes said that the Aam Aadmi Party has failed to win people's mandate at both the municipal level and the Lok Sabha level. As a result, the Delhi BJP chief claimed that the party will be ousted because of its non-performance during its term, even with as a strong a mandate as winning 67 out of the 70 assembly seats.
The North-East Delhi MP said that AAP's performance in the Lok Sabha polls in Delhi shows that people have chosen not to believe in their brand of politics, which Tiwari claimed was one of "deceit and lies". He said that people in Delhi only want to embrace the politics of development and nothing else, adding that this is what voters here had voted for.
The BJP leader went on to accuse the Delhi government of deteriorating education in the capital and indulging religion and caste politics.