‘It is a triangular contest for the New Delhi seat'

A two-term lawmaker and a Jat face of the Bharatiya Janata Party Lin Delhi, Parvesh Verma has been picked by the party to take on former chief minister and Aam Aadmi Party leader Arvind Kejriwal and the Congress's Sandeep Dikshit in the high-stakes New Delhi constituency.

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In an interview to Smriti Kak, he spoke about the upcoming electoral battle. Edited excerpts:

Arvind Kejriwal has written to the prime minister seeking inclusion of Jats in Delhi in the central OBC list. How do you view this?

This is just a political stunt. Arvind Kejriwal has done nothing for the Jat community in Delhi or for the villagers. There has been a long pending demand for a memorial for my father (the late former chief minister Sahib Singh Verma). I have written to him, too, about a place but there was no response from him.

He has done no work -- no new college was opened, no new road or flyover has been built. I don't think he has even visited the villages.

The BJP's narrative seems focussed only on the AAP's alleged corruption and the 'Sheesh Mahal'.