BJP to focus on minority dominated areas

Syed Ali Ahmed

Tribune News Service

New Delhi, December 10

The BJP has decided to mobilise its workers after December 20 in 45 localities that is predominant Dalits and Muslim localities in south, central, north, north-west Delhi and the Trans-Yamuna area, sources in the party said.
The sources said till December 20, the party is only concentrating on corner meetings that are being addressed by BJP MPs.
According to the sources, Scheduled Castes and Muslims are always being considered as the vote bank of the Congress. But in the previous elections the in constituencies where the population of the Schedules Castes and Muslims is 15-20 per cent, the minority exercised their franchise in favour of AAP candidates that was the reason that AAP had won 28 seats out of 70. While in the constituencies where Muslim electorates are 30 per cent and above had voted in favour of either the Congress candidates or other secular parties.
The sources said, in the Narela Assembly constituency electorates of Scheduled Castes are 22.21 per cent, in Bawana 21.06, in Sultanpuri 44.37, in Mangolpuri 35.89, in Wazirpur 21.55, in Ballimaran 24.33, in Karol Bagh 40.62, in Patel Nagar 21.67, in Madipur 29.29, in Deoli 25.53, in Ambedkar Nagar 31.26, in Tughlakabad 21.56, in Trilokpuri 31.72, in Kondli 26.43, in Seemapuri 30.70 and in Gokalpuri is 32.75 per cent.
Of these assembly constituencies, the Delhi election department had declared 10 seats as SC reserved in the last elections. The seats are Bawana, Sultanpuri, Karol Bagh, Patel Nagar, Madipur, Deoli, Ambedkar Nagar, Trilokpuri, Seemapuri and Gokalpuri.
The Muslim-dominated seats are Okhla, Matia Mahal, Ballimaran, Chandni Chowk, Seelampur and Mustafabad.
According to the sources, if the BJP makes dent in vote bank of the AAP and the Congress it will be easy to secure majority of seats in the coming elections. Though in the previous election the BJP had not given significance to the AAP, as it was first time when the AAP had contested the election but in this election, the BJP takes AAP as its nearest rival in Delhi, the sources said.