In his first meeting since the results of India’s Lok Sabha elections, Prime Minister Narendra Modi earlier this week asked seven Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) lawmakers to take the lead and “break the vicious cycle” that has kept the party from coming to power in the Delhi Assembly, according to sources.
The meeting took place on Wednesday and is said to have lasted for around 20 minutes. Party sources said the chief minister was said to have reminded the seven BJP lawmakers, six of whom are newcomers, that the party’s decision to replace their predecessors was due to “poor track record” and lack of “connection with the people”.
Party sources said the prime minister urged the newly sworn-in Lok Sabha members to do all they can to avoid the same fate and instructed them to deliver as many development projects as possible in their constituencies ahead of Delhi’s state assembly elections due early next year.
According to party sources, the Prime Minister highlighted his party’s failure to form government in the national capital for over three decades and asked his legislators to “not rely too much” on the party’s state unit when it comes to the BJP’s prospects in the 2025 Delhi Assembly elections and to “take the lead”, especially in terms of establishing and nurturing a connect with the people of the national capital.
In addition to plans for development in Delhi’s unauthorised colonies, sources said, the prime minister is likely to have asked lawmakers to implement each of the 100-day plans he announced during the recently concluded election campaign for the Lok Sabha elections within the given deadline.
Party sources pointed out that most of the Bharatiya Janata Party’s Delhi MPs, particularly South Delhi MP Ramvir Singh Bidhuri, New Delhi MP Bansuri Swaraj, North East Delhi MP Manoj Tiwari and North West Delhi MP Yogendra Chandriya, have launched a series of development projects in their constituencies since their meeting with the Prime Minister.
