‘Simply Did My Job’: Parvesh Verma, BJP’s Delhi CM Frontrunner, Says Time To Fulfill Guarantees That Kejriwal Did not – News18
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Verma beat AAP supremo Arvind Kejriwal and Congress chief Sandeep Dikshit to win the celebrated New Delhi meeting seat
BJP candidate from New Delhi meeting constituency Parvesh Verma celebrates outdoors a counting middle. (PTI)
“It’s a large second that we’re coming again to energy after 26 years,” exclaimed Bharatiya Janata Get together (BJP)’s Parvesh Sahib Singh Verma who pipped AAP supremo Arvind Kejriwal and Congress chief Sandeep Dikshit to win the celebrated New Delhi meeting seat within the February 5 elections.
Talking to CNN-News18, Verma — who is claimed to be the frontrunner for the chief ministerial publish — stated “large challenges” lay forward for the BJP which might “fulfill all our guarantees”.
“I’ve simply achieved my job that was requested of me by the get together. We heard individuals’s issues and so they confirmed religion in BJP and Prime Minister Narendra Modi. I’ll work very arduous for the event of New Delhi,” he stated.
Coaching his weapons on Kejriwal, Verma stated: “There was robust anti-incumbency towards Kejriwal. He has achieved no work previously 11 years nor fulfilled any guarantees. He’s now making excuses for his or her loss.”
The chief additionally sought to clear the air on the chief ministerial race, saying he had no expectations and had merely fulfilled his position. “The MLAs will elect the chief and get together management will take the ultimate choice. I don’t have any expectations.”
Parvesh’s father, Sahib Singh Verma, served because the chief minister of Delhi, whereas his uncle was the North Delhi Municipal Corporator mayor. Verma Jr entered Delhi Dangal with a victory from the Mehrauli seat within the 2013 meeting election. He received the West Delhi Lok Sabha seat in 2014 and retained the constituency by a landslide victory in 2019. He had additionally served because the member of Joint Committee on Salaries and Allowances of Members of Parliament.
Nonetheless, within the 2024 Lok Sabha polls, the BJP determined to switch Verma with Kamaljeet Sehrawat, a pacesetter from the Jat group, for the West Delhi Lok Sabha seat. As an alternative of sulking, he determined to maintain his eyes on Delhi and the gamble appears to have paid off for him in addition to the BJP.
Within the run-up to Delhi elections, Verma, had made a number of guarantees, starting from making Yamuna a riverfront much like the one at Sabarmati, giving homes to slum dwellers, 50,000 authorities jobs, flyovers, and a pollution-free nationwide capital.
