Delhi: 'Vaishya' community comes in support of Manoj Tiwari for LS polls

New Delhi [India], May 3 : The 'Vaishya' community has come in support of Bharatiya Janata Party candidate Manoj Tiwari for the Lok Sabha elections.
A huge gathering was organised on Friday in Shahdara in support of Bhojpuri actor-turned-politician, who is seeking his third term from North East Delhi.
Union Minister Piyush Goyal was also present at the event. Addressing the event, he urged people to support Manoj Tiwari and said it is important to make him win so that the "forces who want to break the country" don't come to power.
"According to Vastu, God resides in the North East direction, hence the victory of soft-spoken, hard-working Manoj Tiwari who supports Satya (truth) and Sanatana, is crucial. If the forces wanting to break the country come to power, the whole of Delhi will be affected. Now, you have to decide, if you want an MP who ignites riots or who carries out development," Goyal said.

He also lauded the economic policies of Prime Minister Narendra Modi-led BJP.
"Under years of Congress rule, a weak economy had become India's identity. However, some strong decisions by PM Narendra Modi helped India in coming out of the crisis. As a result, today India is the world's fifth-largest economy," he said.
BJP's Lok Sabha election in-charge Vishnu Mittal, District President Manoj Tyagi, Corporation Councilor Pramod Gupta, Mohan Goyal, Reena Maheshwari, party leader Jai Bhagwan Goyal, Neelkant Bakshi, Satish Garg, along with hundreds of people of Vaishya community were present in the event.
The event was organized by BJP's Municipal Councilor Mukesh Bansal.
Manoj Tiwari, the BJP candidate from North East Delhi, said in his address that he first won from the constituency, it was "extremely backward", while it is rapidly progressing today. He promised to further develop it in the next term.
"We built the first Kendriya Vidyalaya, the first passport centre, the first railway station, the first convention centre. We brought the metro for the first time and now we are expanding it. We constructed highways, built many parks, and increased the capacity of the Harsh Vihar Transmission Center at a cost of Rs 400 crore to provide 24-hour electricity. The constituency is moving in the path of development under PM Modi's achievements. With the blessings of you all, it will be our target to make it an ideal region," Tiwari said.

Later, while speaking to the reporters, Piyush Goyal criticised Congress' "divisive" ideology and said PM Modi believes in 'One India'. He also praised Manoj Tiwari calling him the 'son of Delhi."
"We are all Indians first, we are one county. Unlike the Congress, which is talking of divisive politics, whose Deputy CM's brother from Karnataka talks about the southern states having to think of separating from India; PM Modi believes in one India and in the unity and integrity of India," Goyal told reporters.
"Manoj Tiwari is the son of Delhi. He is the pride of Delhi and we are all proud of his great achievements. North East Delhi is privileged to have an MP of the stature of Manoj Tiwari. We will give him a resounding victory," he added.
Manoj Tiwari is a two-time MP from the North East Delhi constituency. Bhojpuri actor-turned-politician is up against Congress leader Kanhaiya Kumar.
He defeated AAP's Anand Kumar in 2014 and Congress' Sheila Dixit -- also the former Delhi Chief Minister -- in 2019.
Kanhaiya Kumar has served as the president of the Jawaharlal Nehru University Students' Union.
Kumar will be contesting his second Lok Sabha election. In 2019, he contested as a Communist Party of India (CPI) candidate from Bihar's Begusarai, wherein he lost to Union Minister and Bharatiya Janata Party leader Giriraj Singh. Later, he joined the Congress in 2021.
The Lok Sabha elections in Delhi will be held in a single phase on May 25, 2024. Voting in Delhi will be held for 7 Lok Sabha seats. The counting of the votes will be done collectively across the nation on June 4.