Delhi BJP chief unveils 89-member executive committee

NEW DELHI: Gearing up for the Assembly elections scheduled later this year, Delhi BJP President Vijay Goel today unveiled a new 89-member executive committee having a mix of both youth and senior leaders.

Among the prominent youth faces are Parvesh Verma, son of former Delhi Chief Minister Sahib Singh Verma and Nakul Bharadwaj.

Senior BJP leaders like V K Malhotra, Jagdish Mukhi, Arti Mehra, Harshvardhan, Madan Lal Khurana, Vijender Gupta and BJP spokesperson Meenakshi Lekhi are among the 59 permanent invitees to the executive committee.

Goel has included 98 leaders as special invitees to the executive committee.

"The executive has the right blend of youth and experience as most of the senior and experienced leaders have been retained while several new faces have also been inducted," Goel said in a statement.

He said that the objective of setting up of new team is to run a "highly motivated, well planned and positive campaign" to ensure that Delhi residents get reprieve from the misrule of Congress government.

"BJP is fully geared up to fight the assembly polls due over the next few months. We are getting huge support from all sections of society. As a part of our poll strategy, we have already initiated an exercise to implement poll management at the booth level," Goel said.

The Delhi BJP chief said his party would be appointing 10 party workers at every polling booth to manage the electioneering and mobilising public support.

The party had also set up expert groups to work on specific issues like power, water, women's safety, unauthorised colonies, transport, education, etc.

"These expert groups would come out with detailed action plans explaining how problems faced by Delhi residents can be resolved. Unlike Congress, Delhi BJP doesn't believe in expressing its helplessness over various issues," Goel said.