'People are fed up with the lies of the AAP govt'

Delhi Bharatiya Janata Party chief Virendra Sachdeva, who is heading the party's preparations for the February 5 assembly elections, hopes that the BJP will end its nearly 27-year exile from power in Delhi by winning the 2025 assembly elections.

- Alok KN Mishra

Sachdeva spoke to HT about promises made by the BJP and his party's strategy to end more than a decade of Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) rule.

Edited excerpts:

What are the key issues that the BJP is focused on for the Delhi elections? We are focused on key pressing issues such as corruption by AAP leaders including Arvind Kejriwal, bad governance that they pushed

Delhi into, overflowing sewage, terrible infrastructure in unauthorised colonies because the AAP government did no work, the bad conditions that the slum dwellers have been forced to live in, the Sheesh Mahal scam, pollution, and the ongoing water crisis. The people are fed up with the lies of the AAP government and want to... give a chance to the BJP so that the double-engine government of the BJP led by Prime Minister Narendra Modi can ensure all-round progress of Delhi.

The AAP says that the BJP is contesting the election on negative issues while the AAP is talking about good education, health care, welfare schemes.