Many argue Narendra Modi silently pushed Harsh Vardhan’s CM nomination, in spite of the fact that Vijay Goel, was favoured earlier for his ‘organisational ability’ –and who had helped organise a big rally for Narendra Modi in Delhi.
Narendra Modi realised that BJP’s fortunes in Delhi were bleak unless they could project a ‘clean’ candidate – something that the AAP seems to have made their buzzword. Modi apparently pulled the ropes in favour of Harsh Vardhan in consultation with senior leaders like Arun Jaitley and Amit Shah who were also in favour of Harsh Vardhan, and was a task done by Rajnath Singh, who executed it nicely , patching up with Goel for the adjustment.
Dr Harsh Vardhan’s apparent popularity among citizens is definitely a defining factor,Dr Vardhan, who was credited with introducing the National Polio Surveillance Project (NPSP),that led to the elimination of the wild polio virus type 2 by 1999, which caused one of the most debilitating varieties of polio in India.
However, it appears that Narendra Modi also realised that AAP’s development agenda could be countered by a man who. The project, started in 1997, led to the elimination of the wild polio virus type 2 by 1999, which caused one of the most debilitating varieties of polio in India. More importantly, Harsh Vardhan's clean, honest politics image countered much of AAP's trademark anti corruption theory.Harsh Vardhan, with the comment that,“he is too good, non-corrupt and straightforward to be the face of a party such as the BJP.” booked the seat for nomination leading to best chances of winning the election.
Yes this imagination of choosing Vardhan may be unofficially credited to Modi, but it was soon confirmed by the latest poll by the India Today Group-ORG, only this week. The India Today Group-ORG latest poll shows BJP is poised to win the elections with 36 of the 70 seats.
This latest Delhi poll survey declares the report that touts BJP’s Harsh Vardhan as new “squeaky clean middle class icon” on the block. It is despite his late anointment, the good doctor was named by 19 % of the voters as the best CM candidate, trailing a mere three % behind Kejriwal’s 22 %. The BJP-friendly results,underlined by the accompanying swing on Harsh Vardhan, in sharp contrast to other previous polls.
Kejriwal‘s AAP scored 18 seats in the latest C-Voter survey and a whopping 19-25 seats in the CNN-IBN/CSDS count. These other polls offer little hope of an outright BJP victory, predicting anywhere between 22-28 seats for the saffron party.The last poll is done much after the digestion of the news on arrival of Vardhan, diluting much of the earlier jubilation by AAP with their own projection poll.
INDIA HONEST predicts if the swing brought on Harsh Vardhan's arrival at the late hours, will help accelerate BJP's growing strong grips on Delhi, as was most anticipated in the beginning, or otherwise even the internal tussle and mismatch in selection within AAP will again turn the fight more of a duel one between Sheila's Congress and Modi's BJP.