Delhi BJP President Adesh Gupta resigns after defeat in MCD elections
According to reports, Adesh Gupta has submitted his resignation to the party's national president JP Nadda.
According to reports, Adesh Gupta has submitted his resignation to the party's national president JP Nadda.
The party will now “expose the corrupt Aam Aadmi Party", said Delhi BJP president Adesh Gupta while addressing the media for the first time after losing the MCD polls.
DPCC) president Chaudhary Anil Kumar pointed out that Congress’ vote share has jumped from 4.26 to 12 per cent while the Aam Aadmi Party’s (AAP) vote share, which was 54 per cent during the Assembly elections in 2020, slumped to 42 per cent, and that of the Bharatiya Janata Party’s (BJP) remaining static at 39 per cent.
Major concern for the party is that even though its vote share, at 42.05 per cent, was double of 2017's 21.09 per cent, it has lost around 12 per cent of its vote share since the last Assembly polls.
The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) won the MCD polls with 134 of the total 250 wards in the national capital's civic body polls.
The BJP slammed the Congress for including 1984 anti-Sikh riots accused Jagdish Tytler in the party's Pradesh Election Committee for the December 4 Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) polls.
The Delhi BJP chief Adesh Gupta alongwith party MP Manoj Tiwari on Thursday released the party's manifesto for the upcoming polls.
As the date of the election is drawing closer, in the same way the internal tussle in the Aam Aadmi Party over ticket distribution is growing. Most of the party MLAs do not want the old councillors to be given party tickets again.
On the AAP candidates for the polls, Delhi’s Deputy CM Manish Sisodia said the process to choose them was underway in a professional manner.
The core group members included state chief Adesh Gupta, state in-charge Baijayant Jay Panda, co-incharge Alka Gujar, convenor of election management committee Ashish Sood, and state general secretary (org) Siddharthan.