Kiran Bedi Missing From Posters as BJP's Big Guns Campaign for Delhi Polls

The BJP's chief ministerial candidate Kiran Bedi is missing from posters and some election speeches as the party changes the pitch of its campaign in Delhi dramatically. With seven days to go for polling, party president and chief strategist Amit Shah has deployed the BJP's biggest guns to take on Arvind Kejriwal of the Aam Aadmi Party.

Many BJP posters in Delhi constituencies now feature only Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Mr Shah and the local party candidate.

While Ms Bedi - who joined the party just days ago and was immediately announced presumptive CM - continued to criss-cross Delhi with her roadshows, the party's focused attack on her main rival Arvind Kejriwal is being fronted by senior party leaders.

Two central ministers posed a second installment of five questions to Mr Kejriwal.

Tomorrow, PM Modi will address a rally at CBD Ground in East Delhi. Today, Mr Shah spoke at a rally in Janakpuri and made not a mention of Kiran Bedi. Union minister Smriti Irani addressed another rally and she too did not mention Ms Bedi.

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After Kiran Bedi, Shazia Ilmi officially joins BJP

Earlier in the Friday morning, Shazia Ilmi met BJP president Amit Shah at his residence here and said she will soon be joining the party.

During her meeting with Shah, Shazia was accompanied by BJP general secretary (organisation) Ram Lal and Delhi BJP chief Satish Upadhayay, among others.

"I had a very good meeting with Amit bhai and he welcomed me in the party. I will be joining the party soon," she said after the meeting.

Her meeting comes a day after former Team Anna member Kiran Bedi joined BJP. Shazia had earlier said that she will "expose" AAP. The BJP will use the two former associates of AAP chief Arvind Kejriwal against him in the elections.

While Bedi is a former founder member of Team Anna, Shazia unsuccessfully contested on the AAP tickets in last Delhi Assembly polls and Parliamentary polls. She later quit AAP.

Elections to Delhi Assembly are slated for February 7 and results will be out on February 10.

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BJP discusses plans for Delhi assembly polls

BJP president Amit Shah held a meeting with top party leaders from Delhi to evolve the party's strategies for the polls. The meeting continued till late at night. The leaders discussed probable candidates and held deliberations on fielding all its sitting MLAs.
   
Shah also told the party men to focus on polling booths and reach out to voters. The leaders, BJP sources said, have been asked to identify booth level workers as well as candidates in each of the constituencies.
   
BJP will hold a meeting of its Central Election Committee within the next two to three days and finalize some of the candidates. The filing of nominations starts on Wednesday.
   
The party expressed confidence that its victory march would continue in the national capital and it would form the next government in Delhi which can move in tandem with the Centre to ensure all-round development.
   
Buoyed by BJP's victory in the Delhi Cantonment Board elections today, where it won five of the eight seats, party leaders said it reflects the mood of the people in the city.
   
"It is clear and we hope that Delhi's mood has come out through the Delhi Cantt. results. We hope to get a good and best majority in Delhi," Delhi in-charge Prabhat Jha said.

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Odisha BJP upbeat over Amit Shah visit

Preparations were in full swing for Shah's visit beginning on January 6 as the state party unit rolled out three 'Prachar Raths' here on Sunday to inform people about the 'Mahasangram' campaign to be launched by the party chief.
   
The raths displayed posters of the party's campaign aimed at ousting the BJD government by highlighting the series of "mega scams that rocked the state" during its rule.
   
"The three Raths will move across the state capital requesting the people to attend Amitji's meeting on January 6 in large numbers," state party spokesman Sameer Mohanty said, adding, the three raths would cover three assembly segments of Bhubaneswar North, Bhubaneswar Madhya and Bhubaneswar Ekamra.
   
"Around two lakh people are expected to attend the meeting to be addressed by Amitji," he said.
   
Voicing similar optimism, another senior leader Sajjan Sharma said Shah's visit would certainly give a big boost to BJP's prospects and revitalize the organization considerably to enable it to take on the ruling BJD.

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Sohrabuddin fake encounter case: CBI court drops charges against BJP president Amit Shah

"I am of the opinion that the inference drawn by CBI is not accepted in totality and he (Shah) cannot be charged as an accused," Special CBI Judge M B Gosavi said in a brief order pronounced in the court.
   
Details of the judgement will be available later.
   
The CBI had charged Shah, the then Minister of State for Home in Gujarat, as an accused in the killing of gangster Sohrabuddin Sheikh and Tulsiram Prajapati, who was said to

have been an eyewitness to the encounter.
   
The CBI had cited some telephone calls between Shah and two other accused in its case against Shah.

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Rahul Gandhi's campaign made victory easy for BJP: Amit Shah

"It had become easy for BJP to win the seats wherever Rahul had campaigned in the last parliamentary polls. This is also happening in the Assembly elections in Jharkhand," Shah said while addressing an election rally in favour of party candidate Madhav Lal Singh, a sitting MLA at Gomia in Bokaro district.

Congress was concerned about the sea of humanity turning up at all rallies of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, he claimed.

"You have ousted the mother-son government at the Centre and now it is the turn of Jharkhand to dismiss the father-son duo and install a full-majority government of BJP," Shah said referring to the Sibu Soren-Hemant Soren regime.

While Congress had committed the coal scam, the Soren-government was indulged in the sand scam, he alleged, assuring the people that BJP would expose them and "punish the culprits".

Congress has been asking for a six-month account of the Narendra Modi government, but they should first give the country an account of their sixty-year rule, Shah said.

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Amit Shah urges people to join Clean India, Clean Ganga mission

"Our Prime Minister has taken many initiatives. He stressed for two things clean India and Clean Ganga. Every citizen of the country should join these initiatives," Shah said in his address to the people here today.

"Cleanliness is the joint responsibility of people and the state. This (occasion of Chhath Puja) is the best occasion to take a pledge for a clean India and clean Ganga mission. This cleanliness will bring health and prosperity," Shah said.

"The river Ganga is not only a river, it's our mother. We have to take the initiative so that Ganga remains clean from Gangotri to Gangasagar. Whenever, you people go to 'Poorvanchal' (region comprising eastern Uttar Pradesh and Bihar), you have to stress the Clean Ganga mission.

"The mammoth work initiated by Modiji can only  be finished with the help of people in Poorvanchal," Shah said, at the annual Chhath Puja organised by the Bihar-Gujarat Association here.

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Amit Shah, key aide of PM Narendra Modi, named BJP President

Amit Shah, a close aide to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, was Wednesday named the BJP's new president, only two months after leading the party to a spectacular win in the Lok Sabha election in Uttar Pradesh.

A former home minister of Gujarat, Shah -- presently a general secretary -- succeeds Rajnath Singh, the home minister in Modi's government.

Rajnath Singh made the widely expected announcement about Shah, 49, after a meeting of the Bharatiya Janata Party's parliamentary board.

Once this was done, a beaming Shah -- a share trader by profession -- accepted sweets and bouquets from party colleagues including Modi, Rajnath Singh, L.K. Advani and Murli Manohar Joshi.

"Amit Shah is the new president," Rajnath Singh told the media as Modi and Shah looked on.

Rajnath Singh said Shah had been chosen for the post because of his "organisational and management skills" which he said was seen in the Uttar Pradesh battle.

In an extraordinary performance that stunned foes and friends alike, the BJP bagged 71 of the 80 Lok Sabha seats in Uttar Pradesh where Shah spearheaded the party campaign like a warrior possessed. Two other seats went to a BJP ally, Apna Dal.

The Congress was left with just two Lok Sabha seats, the Samajwadi Party could get only five (with Mulayam Singh winning two of the seats) while the Bahujan Samaj Party was wiped out.

Ever since, Shah was widely seen as the front-runner for the top party post.

First elected to the Gujarat assembly in 1997, Shah describes his hobbies as cricket, reading and social service.

Over the years, Shah emerged as Modi's most trusted political aide in Gujarat.

Once Modi was named the BJP's prime ministerial candidate, he ensured that Shah was made the election campaign chief in Uttar Pradesh realising that without a sweep in the state the party's future would be bleak.

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