With the Assembly elections around the corner, Delhi BJP leaders have stepped up the slum expansion campaign, which began five months ago, by staying overnight in slums and JJ clusters to strengthen the party’s vote base among the lower middle-class.
Under the campaign, senior BJP leaders, including its seven Delhi MPs, and workers stay in different slums and JJ clusters overnight and interact with the residents. So far, the party leaders have conducted such campaigns in 1,194 slum clusters across the city.
“The main aim behind this campaign is to interact with the slum-dwellers and understand possible solutions (to their issues) directly from them,” a statement from the party quoted Vishnu Mittal, the state general secretary and coordinator of the campaign, as saying.
Under the Slum Expansion Campaign, the party has appointed slum-expanders and slum-caretakers to run the drive across the city.
Delhi BJP president Virendra Sachdeva, who took part in several jhuggi stays overnight, said, “The BJP is the first party whose leaders have been directly communicating with people, especially the youth, in all the jhuggi clusters in Delhi for the last five months, understanding their problems and solutions… Through our workers, the party has understood the life & problems of the residents living in jhuggi clusters.”
If the BJP is voted to power in Delhi, it will ease their lives, and provide facilities, timely water, electricity and food through Delhi Urban Shelter Improvement Board (DUSIB), he promised.
According to the statement, South Delhi MP Ramvir Singh Bidhuri said the BJP believes in improving, not dismantling, the jhuggi clusters. “Our upcoming government will create a separate department to ensure cleanliness in the jhuggi settlements,” he said.
BJP national general secretary Dushyant Gautam expressed confidence that the BJP was going to form the next government in Delhi.
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