Virendra Sachdeva, the new working president of Delhi BJP, on Sunday, stressed that all the party workers have to work collectively to ensure the victory of party candidates in all the 7 Lok Sabha seats in 2024.
Earlier in the day, BJP national president, Jagat Prakash Nadda, appointed Sachdeva as the new working president of Delhi BJP.
Adesh Gupta, resigned as Delhi BJP president, on Sunday, a couple of days after the saffron party ‘s defeat in the Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) elections.
At a programme, organised at the state office here, the top leaders of the party welcomed the newly-appointed state working president Virendra Sachdeva by presenting him with bouquets.
Sachdeva, in his address, thanked the party for being appointed him as the working president and said, “We have to start preparing for the 2024 Lok Sabha elections without any rest. We have to spread the message of Prime Minister, Narendra Modi’s ‘Sabka Saath, Sabka Vikas’ among the masses to ensure victory of all the seven BJP candidates from Delhi in the 2024 Lok Sabha elections.”
In his welcome address, Leader of Opposition in Delhi Assembly, Ramvir Singh Bidhuri, said that the family of Sachdeva is settled in Old Delhi after being displaced from Pakistan at the time of Partition.
Active in politics since 1988, Sachdeva has held posts of district vice president and general secretary of Chandni Chowk.
In 2009, Sachdeva was appointed as the secretary of Delhi BJP and later became state vice president in 2020.
Between 2012 and 2014, Sachdeva headed the party workers’ training wing and between 2017 and 2020, he was the member of the party’s National Good Governance Department.
He has been the secretary and treasurer of the Indian Archery Association and at present, he is the associate executive member of the Indian Olympic Association.
On December 7, the AAP stormed to power in the MCD, ending the 15-year rule of the BJP in the powerful civic body of the National Capital winning 134 of the 250 wards while the BJP, which had been ruling the civic body since 2007, bagged 104 seats.
The Congress finished a poor third with nine seats while Independents bagged three wards.
The MCD polls held on December 4 witnessed a low turnout as compared to the 2017 polls with 50.48 per cent of the electorate exercising its franchise, officials said. Voting in 2017 was 53 per cent. A total of 13,638 polling centres were set up for the polling on Sunday.
Earlier this year, the Central government unified the three corporations – East Delhi Municipal Corporation, South Delhi Municipal Corporation and North Delhi Municipal Corporation – into one MCD.
After a Union Home Ministry notification, the total number of MCD wards in Delhi was reduced to 250 from earlier 272. As many as 42 wards are in the reserved category.