BJP plans to ‘neutralise’ AAP’s election strategy-Breaking news in India

New Delhi: The results of an internal survey which the BJP commissioned for the Delhi Assembly elections scheduled in November is giving sleepless nights to the party’s central in-charge for the state, Nitin Gadkari. For, it’s clear that the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) will spoil the show for the saffron outfit by splitting anti-Congress votes.

Sources reveal that former BJP president Nitin Gadkari is working on a strategy to minimise AAP’s damage to the party. To this end, he wants to open channels of communication with AAP chief Arvind Kejriwal and has deployed BJP MP Maneka Gandhi for the same.

Sources say that the AAP leader and former mediaperson Shazia Ilmi has met Maneka after the latter started talks following Gadkari’s initiative. Though the details of the talks between Maneka and Ilmi are not known, sources say that Gadkari is working on a strategy to reduce AAP’s presence in many constituencies to just a token fight by identifying such “friendly fight seats”.

According to the findings of the BJP’s internal survey, which E Newspaper of India had disclosed in its editions in the last 24 hours, many bigwigs of the BJP like Vijay Goel, Arti Mehra, Harshvardhan and Harsharan Singh Balli could lose in their respective constituency because of the AAP factor and the in-fighting in the party ranks.

This, coupled with the findings of a Congress’s internal survey which projects 39 seats for the Sheila Dikshit-led government against BJP’s 27 in the 70-member Assembly, has prompted Gadkari to work on “neutralising AAP
strategy”.

Sources say Gadkari had a detailed discussion with Maneka at his Teen Murti Road residence to “neutralise AAP strategy”. Gadkari told Maneka that Kejriwal had praised her dedication for different causes in his several speeches by saying that “Maneka cares for animals” while the UPA government is not even bothered about citizens. However, Gadkari’s “neutralise Aam Aadmi Party strategy” could hit a roadblock given the fact that Kejriwal has been a bitter critic of the former BJP president and has publicly slammed him for corruption charges.

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