Preparations on at Ramlila Maidan for Saturday’s rally. (Source: Express photo by Oinam Anand) Preparations on at Ramlila Maidan for Saturday’s rally. (Source: Express photo by Oinam Anand)

On Saturday, the BJPs ‘Abhinandan rally’ will sound the bugle for the upcoming Assembly polls in the capital with Prime Minister Narendra Modi launching the party’s campaign at Ramlila Maidan.

While the party will felicitate chief ministers from the states where it recently won, BJP said Jugal Kishore Sharma and Jitendra Singh will represent Jammu and Kashmir where BJP has performed well.

Chief ministers Devender Fadnavis from Maharashtra, Raghubar Das from Jharkhand, Manohar Lal Khattar from Haryana will be present at the rally and will ask for votes in the name of Modi. These chief ministers are to speak at the beginning of the rally.

“They will request voters from their respective states to vote for the BJP. They will also project the achievements of their governments and will promise development,” a senior party leader said.

The felicitation is being seen as an attempt by the BJP to showcase its acceptance by voters of states where it had failed to register its presence in earlier elections. With Delhi being a city where a huge population consists of migrants, the felicitation is expected to boost the party among the voters of those states.

All seven Delhi MPs are also expected to give their report cards stating the development work they have done. Vijay Goel, MP from Rajasthan and former Delhi unit chief, is slated to be the first speaker followed by seven MPs.

After the MPs, the CMs and MoS Jitendra Singh, Delhi in-charge Prabhat Jha will speak. He will be followed by Union ministers Arun Jaitley and Venkaiah Naidu and Delhi chief Satish Upadhyay. Party president Amit Shah and Modi will speak at the end.

At the Maidan, the party has set up a 50-foot high national flag, a 28-foot cut-out of Modi and a 20-foot cut-out of Shah. This is to let the people know that the BJP’s face in the capital this election will be Modi.

Modi’s rally has been termed as a game changer by the party who still fears that the AAP has not lost all ground since their defeat in the Lok Sabha elections.

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