With Delhi Assembly elections round the corner, Prime Minister Narendra Modi will address the mega "Parivartan Rally" in North West Delhi's Rohini on Sunday. The visit comes a day after the BJP announced its first list of candidates.
The Prime Minister will also inaugurate two major transport project on Sunday- the Janakpuri West-Krishna Park Extension stretch of the Delhi Metro and the 13-kilometre Delhi-Ghaziabad-Meerut Namo Bharat Rapid Rail (RRTS) corridor.
The Janakpuri West-Krishna Park Extension stretch will thrown open to the public from 3 pm Sunday. "With the addition of Krishna Park Extension Station, the Delhi Metro network now comprises 289 stations spanning a total length of 394.448 km. This new section is an extension of the already operational Botanical Garden-Janakpuri West on Magenta Line," , the DMRC's principle executive director Anuj Dayal said.
As for the RRTS project, it will connect Sahibabad in Uttar Pradesh's Ghaziabad with New Ashok Nagar in Delhi, marking the first step in Namo Bharat connectivity for Delhi.
'Big-ticket announcement'
The Prime Minister's rally ahead of the elections is a highly-anticipated one as the party leaders said Delhi can expect some "big-ticket announcement'. The BJP has not ruled Delhi since 1993 when its Legislative Assembly was established and hopes to wrest power from AAP this time.
What the BJP list says
While the saffron party has already said it would continue AAP’s ongoing schemes, including free electricity, its strategy to take on AAP includes fielding grassroots leaders. Insiders claim that the BJP has considered only the candidate's potential to win this time, as evidenced by the fact that the party chose to field even municipal councillors, former MLAs, defeated candidates as well as leaders from other parties. On defeated candidates, the top leadership argued that leaders cannot be denied tickets just because they have lost elections earlier as there was a clear AAP wave last time.
In the party's current list of 29 candidates, there are 13 candidates who have lost the previous or previous assembly elections.
