File photo: Kiran Bedi with fellow BJP party members during a roadshow on her way to file her nomination from Krishna Nagar. (Agence France-Presse)
Delhi BJP chief Satish Upadhyay has written a strong letter asking local leaders to "unite" and has warned that they will "regret your inactivity all your life."
In a sign of the party's desperation to get its act together in the last lap of the Delhi elections, to be held in eight days, Mr Upadhyay has appealed to the leaders of the state unit to "forget differences" and work to ensure a win for the party.
The letter indicates that many of Delhi's stalwarts have been in a deep sulk over former top cop Kiran Bedi being para-dropped earlier this month as the party's chief ministerial candidate and their reported lassitude and disinterest in supporting her has the party worried. The letter was written a few days after Kiran Bedi's anointment.
The BJP is also reportedly worried that Ms Bedi, who joined the party and politics only a few days ago, has been unable to draw the kind of crowds that her main rival Arvind Kejriwal has been drawing.
On Thursday, BJP chief Amit Shah called in the heavy armour to Delhi, deploying an army of the BJP's top ministers and lawmakers to campaign in Delhi.