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BJP’s women wing to decide candidates for BMC Elections 2017
- by Webdesk
- 27 Oct 2016
If sources are to be believed, the women’s wing of the Bhartiya Janata Party is set to have an all new important role that of selecting the candidates for the upcoming BMC Polls slated to take place in February 2017. According to a party insider, a delegation from the BJP’s women’s wing met senior party leaders and told them that they want to decide the candidates for the civic body elections and they have got the go ahead too.
Shalaka Salvi, the Mumbai BJP women’s wing president, has claimed that they have been working on this for almost a year now and the BMC elections is the time when women can show their strength.
“We have been identifying the candidates in the city. While in the Lok Sabha and Assembly polls, women candidates aren’t seen much; the BMC election is actually termed a women’s election. Hence, I have discussed the matter with the president said we should have women candidates,” she said.
Salvi added that “If we want our own mayor, we need to have more candidates who win the elections.”
Party insiders say that it is a senior functionary of the RSS who is responsible for giving the city’s women’s wing the go ahead.
“The national women president of the country is in direct consultation with the Mumbai women wing, and the state representative for deciding the candidatures. There are some powers which aren’t in the hands of the city unit,” said the senior leader, who didn’t wish to be named.
The leader claimed that the wing heads are directly calling people whom they wish to contest the BMC elections and are asking them to get ready.
However, Ms Salvi claims that she is discussing everything with city chief Ashish Shelar and has his support.
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