In an attempt to consolidate its Poorvanchali votebank, the Delhi BJP is organising a “youth conference” for the community on Sunday. The BJP, which is eyeing a hat-trick in civic polls next year, wants to contain the AAP’s growing influence among 40 lakh voters from Poorvanchal.
Union minister Kalraj Mishra and the party’s biggest face from the region in the national capital and Lok Sabha member from North-East Delhi, Manoj Tiwari, will discuss the problems faced by the youth of the community.
According to party insider, Poorvanchali voters will play a decisive role in the 2017 municipal polls and the AAP has already started reaching out to the community with around a dozen MLAs from the region in the Delhi Assembly. “With 11 MLAs from Poorvanchal, the AAP has already started making inroads among the community which comprises over one-third of the electorate in the city and they will play an important role in the local body elections. No party can afford to neglect them considering their number in the national capital,” he said.
The Delhi BJP has planned a series of events to connect itself with the Poorvanchali voters and the “Poorvanchal youth conference” is the first of the series.
“Since February 2015 Delhi Assembly election, around 50,000 youth between 18 and 20 years from Poorvanchal will be using their franchise for the first time in the municipal polls next year. Through the youth conference, we will be trying to connect with them. Union minister Mishra and Mr Tiwari, apart from discussing their problems, will tell them about several youth initiatives started by the Narendra Modi government,” he added.
BJP Poorvanchal Morcha president Dinesh Pratap Singh said that the youth conference will discuss the problems being faced by the youth from Poorvanchal in regard to their livelihood, employment and other problems they face on a day to day basis.
Party’s national vice-president Shyam Jaju, national general secretary Arun Singh and BJP president Satish Upadhyay will also be participating in the conference.
