Delhi MCD Election 2022 news: Full list of BJP star campaigners for capital's civic body polls | Check Delhi MCD Election Date 2022, Results

Delhi MCD Election 2022 news: Full list of BJP star campaigners for capital's civic body polls - Aiming to return to power in the MCD for the fourth time in a row, Delhi BJP has drawn up a list of over 60 star campaigners, including party’s national president JP Nadda and Home Minister Amit Shah.

Several leaders have already given their consent to join the campaign that will pick up after road shows in all 14 districts on November 20. Each road show will be at least 1.5 km long. Union Ministers, including Rajnath Singh, Nitin Gadkari, Smriti Irani, Piyush Goyal, Kiren Rijiju and Anurag Thakur are also expected to campaign for polls to the Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD).

The party has also planned 250 small meetings in different parts of the city to reach out to non-Hindi speaking people from southern states, Odisha, West Bengal and North East among others. They have a sizeable population in large pockets across the city, including RK Puram, CR Park, Satya Niketan and Munirka in South Delhi.

The campaign will begin, sometime around November 21-23, after a party meeting which will be headed by Nadda and Amit Shah.

The party has sought approval from Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath, Madhya Pradesh CM Shivraj Singh Chauhan, Haryana CM Manohar Lal Khattar and Assam CM Himanta Biswa Sarma among others to include their names.

Delhi MCD Election Date 2022 

The 250-ward Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) goes to polls on December 4 (Sunday), 2022. 

Delhi MCD Election Result Date 2022 

The result to the 250-ward Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) will be announced on on December 7 (Wednesday).

The BJP, the AAP and the Congress are the main contenders in the fray. The BJP was helming the MCD since 2007. The civic body was trifurcated in 2012 and reunified earlier this year by the party-ruled government at the Centre. In the last elections, the BJP had won 181 of the 270 wards on which voting was held. The AAP had won 48 wards and Congress 30.

(PTI Inputs) 

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