Purvanchalis to be deciding factor in Delhi polls again: Shahnawaz Hussain

The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), out of power in the Delhi assembly since 1998, is looking to make a comeback in the national capital. Its leader Syed Shahnawaz Hussain spoke to Sanjeev K Jha about wooing voters from the Purvanchali and minority communities, and the party’s strategy for the coming elections.

With a 40% vote share, Purvanchalis will once again be a deciding factor in the coming assembly elections. But like minorities, they too have realised that the AAP and the Congress have so far used them as a means to an end, with respect to the chief minister’s chair, without giving them proper representation in the assembly.