Kiran Bedi, with fellow BJP members, launches the party's vision document
Four days before elections in Delhi, the BJP today released its vision document 2015 for Delhi, with big focus on women's security, an issue at the core of the election campaign of Kiran Bedi, the party's presumptive prime minister.
In 270 points, it also promises to transform Delhi into a world class city, focussing on roads and transport and the environment.
At the launch, Ms Bedi had the spotlight, flanked by senior ministers and state leaders like Satish Upadhyay and Dr Harshvardhan. The former police officer promised to root out corruption from every department, "including the police," and said she would hold a monthly "Dil ki Baat" on the lines of the Prime Minister's "Mann ki Baat" on radio.
Reading from a laptop, Ms Bedi also promised 24-hour water supply and uninterrupted electricity, saying each promise would be treated with equal urgency. She also listed "service delivery principles' and "how deliverables will be achieved."
The document, Ms Bedi said addresses 35 areas that impact "every single person in Delhi." The vision document makes no mention of the demand for full statehood for Delhi.
Last week, the BJP scrapped plans to release a manifesto and decided to give Delhi the vision document mainly because senior leaders were at odds on whether to include the demand for full statehood in the manifesto.
The lack of consonance - mainly a deep sulk among senior leaders over Ms Bedi being picked to lead - has the BJP worried as it battles a resurgent Aam Aadmi Party, whose chief Arvind Kejriwal the party acknowledges is the man to beat.
NDTV's poll of three major opinion polls says Arvind Kejriwal's Aam Admi Party will get 37 seats in the Delhi election - two more than the half-way mark - and the BJP will place second with 29 seats, two down from the last election in December 2013.
The BJP has been out of power in Delhi for the last 16 years. It fell four seats short of a majority in the last assembly elections in December 2013. AAP was runners-up with 28 seats in the 70 member assembly.