Parties huddle, take stock ahead of polling

In the last push to win the Delhi assembly elections scheduled to start from Wednesday morning, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) said they have deployed more than 150,000 volunteers across the city -- 2,150 workers in each assembly constituency -- to ensure a fair electoral process.

- Paras Singh

NEW DELHI:

"BJP's senior leaders and office bearers will lead an early morning awakening campaign, ensuring that from state officials to 13,033 booth heads and committee members, everyone is up on time. BJP workers are highly motivated to end the party's 26-year-long opposition status in Delhi," Delhi BJP chief Virendra Sachdeva said.

BJP leaders said that the party has activated 'booth committees' at the 13,033 polling stations and over 65,000 'panna pramukhs' (smallest local organisation unit) have been engaged for conducting 'drawing-room meetings' at their respective booths -- for voters who haven't decided on whom to vote. Over 125,000 such meetings have already been conducted.

Sachdeva said that he will cast his vote at 7am to "free Delhi from corrupt, anarchic, and incompetent rulers."