Delhi BJP announces State Election Committe for upcoming Assembly polls
Dec 18, 2024
New Delhi [India], December 18 : The Delhi unit of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Wednesday announced the State Election Committe for the assembly elections likely to be held in 2025.
Delhi BJP Chief Virendra Sachdeva, Leader of Opposition, Delhi Assembly, Vijender Gupta, Union Minister of State Harsh Malhotra and former Union Minister Harsh Vardan are among the members of the committee.
BJP MPs Manoj Tiwari, Yogender Chandoliya, Kamaljeet Sehrawat, Ramvir Singh Bidhuri, Praveen Khandelwal and Bansuri Swara are also part of the committee.
Meanwhile, the Bharatiya Janata Party held a core group meeting regarding the Delhi elections in the office of Union Home Minister Amit Shah in Parliament House on Wednesday.
Party's election in-charge Baijayant Panda, Delhi BJP President Virendra Sachdeva, and some MPs from the national capital are present in the meeting.
The Assembly polls in Delhi are expected to be held in early 2025.
Earlier, BJP national president JP Nadda chaired the BJP General Secretary meeting at the party headquarters in the national capital on Tuesday.
The meeting lasted for almost two hours in the BJP headquarters late on Tuesday night.
"BJP National President Shri @JPNadda presided over a meeting with BJP National General Secretaries at BJP Headquarters in New Delhi," the BJP stated in a post on X.
According to sources, discussions were held on the Delhi Assembly Elections, BJP's organization elections, and some other issues.
BJP's first list of Delhi assembly elections will be released soon, sources said.
In view of its organizational elections, parliamentary board member K Laxman was appointed as the National Election Officer. National Election Officer K Laxman and Joint in-charge Sambit Patra also attended the meeting.
The Good Governance Day program to commemorate the birth anniversary of former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee on December 25, and Veer Bal Diwas were also discussed in the meeting, sources said.
Organisational General Secretary BL Santosh, General Secretary Tarun Chugh, Dushyant Gautam, Radha Mohan Agrawal, BJP National General Secretary Vinod Tawde, and Arun Singh were present in the meeting.
Meanwhile, the Aam Aadmi Party has already released the list of all 70 candidates for the Delhi assembly polls.
After winning 67 out of 70 seats in 2015, AAP again won 62 seats in the 2020 assembly elections. While BJP took its tally from three to eight seats, Congress failed to open its account for the second straight time.
