Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Defence Minister Rajnath Singh, Home Minister Amit Shah and BJP president Jagat Prakash Nadda will campaign between May 16  to May 22 for the seven seats in the national Capital. The elections in the national Capital will be held on May 25.

According to BJP sources, the Prime Minister is expected to hold rallies in the Capital between May 18 to May 20 on two different locations in which one can be held in the Ramlila Maidan.

BJP stalwart and Minister for Road, Transport and Highways Nitin Gadkari on Wednesday campaigned for two candidates of the BJP in the national capital. While he took part in a jansabha (public meeting) for the BJP candidate for Chandni Chowk Praveen Khandelwal in Delhi’s Shastri Nagar area, he addressed the public in Burari area to support BJP’s South Delhi Candidate Ramvir Singh Bidhuri.

Along with Gadkari, former Haryana Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar and Rajasthan Minister Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore also campaigned for different BJP candidates in the city. While Rathore held a road show to campaign for the party’s East Delhi candidate Harsh Malhotra, the former Haryana CM addressed a public gathering to support the BJP’s South Delhi Candidate Ramvir Singh Bidhuri.

With four leaders of the ruling party already on the ground to facilitate BJP’s aim to win all seven candidates in the national Capital and repeat their two times successive win, more leaders are expected to campaign for the parties in the successive days.

According to sources, it is expected that apart from the big leaders or the ‘grade one leaders’, rest will be on the ground campaigning for the party and its candidate before May 16.

Several Union Ministers including Piyush Goyal, Hardeep Singh Puri, Smriti Irani and Arjun Ram Meghwal are also included in the list of star campaigners. Further, Chief Ministers of various states will also be taking part in the processions and campaigns by BJP. Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath, Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Dr Mohan Yadav, Uttarakhand Chief Minister Pushkar Singh Dhami, Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma and Rajasthan Chief Minister Bhajan Lal Sharma are also included in the list.

The list encompasses various senior BJP leaders as part of the campaign in Delhi where AAP and Congress have come together under the INDIA alliance to present a joint opposition against the saffron party.