more-inBJP president Amit Shah has told the party’s Delhi unit that civic poll tickets will be given based on the candidates’ residence and that jumping of wards will not be allowed. Mr. Shah met Union Ministers, MPs and party leaders to chalk out a poll strategy on Sunday. According to sources, Shah listened to all the leaders and made it clear that the candidates would not be allowed to jump wards. The party has also formed a core team for MCD polls which includes Union ministers Nirmala Sitharaman, Jitendra Singh, Sanjeev Balyan and Vijay Goel among others. Besides these ministers, party’s MPs from Delhi along with party MLA Vijendra Gupta, former Delhi party unit chief Satish Upadhyay, Shyam Jaju and organisational secretary (BJP) Siddharthan were also present in the meeting.

Source: The Hindu March 27, 2017 19:52 UTC