Delhi assembly polls: Kailash Gahlot appointed member of BJP coordination committee

NEW DELHI: Ahead of state assembly elections, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Saturday announced the appointment of Kailash Gahlot as a member of the party's Delhi assembly election coordination committee.

Kailash Gahlot resigned as Delhi transport minister and also from AAP on November 17 and joined the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) the next day.

After leaving the party, Gahlot said that he reached the decision to quit AAP over a prolonged period.

Earlier, Delhi BJP on November 15 named its 23-member state election coordination committee for the Assembly polls due in February next year. The panel, headed by state BJP president Virendra Sachdeva, will have Union minister of state and East Delhi MP Harsh Malhotra as its convener.

BJP national general secretary Dushyant Gautam, North East Delhi MP Manoj Tiwari and senior leader Arvinder Singh Lovely will be co-conveners of the committee.

Other members of the committee include former Union minister Harsh Vardhan, Leader of Opposition in the Delhi Assembly Vijender Gupta and party MPs Ramvir Singh Bidhuri, Yogender Chandolia, Bansuri Swaraj, Kamaljeet Sehrawat and Praveen Khandelwal.

Former Delhi BJP president Satish Upadhyay, BJP national secretary Manjinder Singh Sirsa, MLA Abhay Verma and former mayor Jai Prakash are also part of the panel.

The BJP is gearing up to upstage the ruling AAP in the polls for the 70-member Delhi Assembly. It last won the assembly polls in Delhi in 1993.

The Arvind Kejriwal-led Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) routed the BJP in the polls in 2015 and 2020, winning 67 and 62 seats, respectively, back to back.
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