Who Will Be BJP's CM Face For Delhi Polls? AAP Predicts Big Citing 'Credible Sources'

Last Updated:January 10, 2025, 16:08 IST

"Today, the entire Delhi is asking from the 'Galli-Galoch' party who is its CM face. The people of Delhi know that by voting for AAP, Arvind Kejriwal will become the CM. But they are asking who will be BJP's CM face," Atishi said.

Ramesh Bidhuri and Atishi

Delhi Chief Minister Atishi on Friday took a jibe at the Bharatiya Janata Party and claimed that the saffron camp has decided to project its leader Ramesh Bidhuri as the party’s chief ministerial candidate for the upcoming assembly polls.

Atishi, who became the chief minister of Delhi after Arvind Kejriwal resigned due to his incarceration last year, said her Kalkaji rival Ramesh Bidhuri will be the BJP’s CM pick. She said that this was Bidhuri’s “reward" for being the “most abusive" leader of his party.

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“Reliable sources have revealed that it has been decided in the CEC meeting of the ‘Gaali Galouch Party’ this morning that the most abusive leader – Ramesh Bidhuri ji – will be made the CM face. The Parliamentary Committee meeting this evening will seal this decision. Now, Delhiites have two options – on one side is the educated, hardworking leader Arvind Kejriwal, and on the other side is the abusive Ramesh Bidhuri…" she said in a post on X.

Earlier today, the she addressed the media and attacked the saffron party for not declaring its CM candidate.

While addressing the media, she said, “Today, the entire Delhi is asking from the ‘Galli-Galoch’ party who is its CM face. The people of Delhi know that by voting for AAP, Arvind Kejriwal will become the CM. But they are asking who will be BJP’s CM face."

AAP leaders, including party national convenor 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.

Atishi is seeking re-election from the Kalkaji seat in the Delhi assembly polls and is pitted against BJP’s Ramesh Bidhuri and Congress’s Alka Lamba.

Ramesh Bidhuri Sparks Row With Remarks On Atishi, Priyanka Gandhi

The BJP MP was recently embroiled in controversy over his remarks against Congress leader Priyanka Gandhi Vadra and the Delhi CM Atishi.

While addressing a gathering during the campaigning, he said that Atishi “changed her father" by changing her surname from “Marlena" to “Singh".

“This Marlena (Atishi) became Singh. She changed her name. Arvind Kejriwal swore on his children not to align with the corrupt Congress. Marlena changed her father. This reflects the character of the Aam Aadmi Party," Bidhuri said.

Earlier, he courted another controversy claiming that if the BJP is voted to power in Delhi assembly, it will build smooth roads “like Priyanka Gandhi’s cheeks" in the constituency.

Bidhuri made a reference to Lalu Yadav’s remark on Hema Malini and roads in Bihar and said that the RJD could not make roads in the state “like Hema Malini’s cheeks", but the BJP would definitely build “roads in Kalkaji like Priyanka Gandhi’s cheeks".

“We will build all roads in Kalkaji like the cheeks of Priyanka Gandhi. Lalu had said that he would build roads in Bihar like the cheeks of Hema Malini, he had lied. He could not. But I assure you that we will make all roads in Kalkaji like the cheeks of Priyanka Gandhi," he said.

After his remark triggered a row, he took back his words.

Delhi Elections 2025

Voting for the Delhi polls will take place on February 5 in a single phase while the counting of votes will take place on February 8. As per the final electoral roll of Delhi, the national capital has 1,55,24,858 voters. The number increased by 1.09 per cent since the publication of the October 29, 2024, draft of electors. Delhi has 70 constituencies (58 General and 12 SC seats).

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