The Delhi unit of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) will set up its election offices on Monday after a “bhoomi puja (special prayers)”.

“The bhoomi puja will be held on Monday after which we will set up our election offices for all seven parliamentary constituencies. We will start the election campaign after that,” Rajesh Bhatia, Delhi BJP’s general secretary, said.

On Sunday, senior leaders of the party will hold public meetings in South Delhi and Northwest Delhi parliamentary constituencies.

Union defence minister Nirmala Sitharaman and home minister Rajnath Singh will hold public meetings in New Delhi and Northeast Delhi constituencies, respectively, on Tuesday.

Senior BJP leaders said by then, the names of all Lok Sabha candidates are likely to be announced.

While the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) and Congress have started campaigning in the area, BJP is yet to start election activities. The party has asked all mandals to hold meetings. “We will be soon setting up election management committees at the district-level and the parliamentary constituency-level. These committees will have members of the district, former and present councillors, MLAs and other senior leaders. These committees will oversee the poll preparations at the grassroots level. We are carrying out door-to-door campaigning,” Bhatia said.

While the party plans to focus on the achievements of the Modi government, it will also inform people how the AAP government in?Delhi did not implement Central schemes such as Ayushman Bharat.

Delhi BJP chief Manoj Tiwari said, “The Modi government has started the Ayushman Bharat scheme through which lakhs of people have benefitted. The party blames Kejriwal government for not implementing the scheme under which people of Delhi could have availed of free treatment up to Rs 5 lakh.”

First Published: Mar 24, 2019 06:09 IST