It will be India vs Pakistan on Delhi poll: BJP leader

Supporters of Bahujan Samaj Party, Samajwadi Party and Rashtriya Lok Dal ride a motorcycle as they gather with others at the SP-BSP-RLD alliance’s first joint rally in Deoband in Uttar Pradesh state on April 7, 2019. The alliance is expected to offer tough competition to BJP in the state. Photo: AFP / Sanjay Kanojia. Sketched by the Pan Pacific Agency.

NEW DELHI, Jan 23, 2020, India Today. Giving a rather uncanny analogy for the upcoming Delhi Assembly election, Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Kapil Mishra in a tweet said that “India and Pakistan will compete on the streets of Delhi on February 8,” India Today reported.

February 8 is when Delhi will vote to elect a new government. The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP), BJP and, Congress are the main parties in fray for the Delhi Assembly poll.

BJP leader Kapil Mishra’s tweet said that it will be “India vs Pakistan on 8th February in Delhi”

“India vs Pakistan, 8th February, Delhi. India and Pakistan will compete on the streets of Delhi on 8 February,” Kapil Mishra’s tweet said.

Former Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) minister and Arvind Kejriwal critic, Kapil Mishra, will take on two-time sitting AAP legislator Akhilesh Pati Tripathi on the Model Town Assembly constituency seat.

Kapil Mishra, who co-founded the Youth for Justice — an action group that led protests across Delhi during the Jessica Lal murder trial and later became part of the AAP, has been nominated by the BJP.

Former AAP minister Kapil Mishra was removed by the chief minister in 2017 from his ministry after he accused Arvind Kejriwal of corruption along with Satyendra jain.

In August 2019, Kapil Mishra joined the BJP and Delhi party chief Manoj Tiwari had said that Mishra would “serve Delhi by following the policies of Modi and the philosophy of Deen Dayal Upadhyay and Syama Prasad Mookerjee”.

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