BJP to project Ramesh Bidhuri as CM candidate, claims Atishi

NEW DELHI, Jan 10: Delhi Chief Minister Atishi, citing “credible” sources, claimed on Friday that the BJP has decided to project its leader Ramesh Bidhuri as the party’s chief ministerial candidate for the assembly polls.
The chief minister said this was Bidhuri’s “reward” for being the “most abusive” leader of his party.
Atishi is seeking re-election from the Kalkaji seat in the Delhi Assembly polls and is pitted against BJP’s Bidhuri and Congress’s Alka Lamba. “It has been learnt from credible sources that the Gali Galauj Party has decided that the most abusive leader of the party Ramesh Bidhuri will become their chief ministerial candidate,” Atishi claimed in a press conference.
AAP leaders, including party supremo Arvind Kejriwal, have dubbed the BJP as “Gali Galauj” (abusive) Party due to its sustained attacks on them by the saffron party leaders, ahead of the assembly elections.
Bidhuri was recently embroiled in controversy over his remarks against Congress leader Priyanka Gandhi Vadra and the Delhi CM. He said Atishi “changed her father” by changing her surname from “Marlena” to “Singh”.
Bidhuri also drew flak for his remarks on Congress leader Priyanka Gandhi. He said he would make roads in his constituency like “Priyanka Gandhi’s cheeks”.
Meanwhile, the BJP’s Central Election Committee met here on Friday to finalise the second list of party candidates for the Delhi Assembly polls.
The BJP’s first list of 29 candidates for the polls to the 70-member Delhi Assembly came out on January 4. It has fielded former MP Parvesh Verma from the New Delhi seat against ex-chief minister and AAP supremo Arvind Kejriwal. The party has named another former MP, Ramesh Bidhuri, from Kalkaji, where Chief Minister and AAP candidate Atishi is in the fray.
Besides Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Home Minister Amit Shah and BJP president J P Nadda joined the other members of the CEC in finalising the names of candidates. (PTI)