Congress, AAP pose no challenge: Parvesh Verma

New Delhi: Sitting BJP MP from West Delhi Lok Sabha constituency Parvesh Verma is so confident of winning again that the electoral process is just a "procedure" for him. The son of former Delhi CM Sahib Singh Verma believes that the candidates of the Congress and the AAP pose no challenge to him in the polls to be held in the national capital on May 12 in the sixth phase.

He is pitted against Aam Aadmi Party's Balbir Singh Jakhar and Congress's Mahabal Mishra, a former Member of Lok Sabha from the same constituency. "I don't think that the Congress or the AAP is a challenge for me in the elections. What I saw during my campaigning is that people's support is more than what I received in the 2014 Lok Sabha elections. The electoral process is just a procedure," Verma told IANS.

The 42-year-old said he is sure of getting more votes than the last time. He won the 2014 Lok Sabha elections by a margin of 2,68,586 votes defeating his nearest rival Jarnail Singh of AAP and Mahabal Mishra.

Asked if he would have felt a challenge if the Congress and AAP had reached seat-sharing agreement for these elections, Verma said he wanted the two parties to join hands because their alliance would have brought out their "lies and wrong intentions" in front of the public. "It does not matter for the BJP if the Congress and the AAP fight the elections jointly or independently.

The election is just a procedure. In both the situations, the BJP would be the winning party," Verma said. He claimed that voters know that no any party other than the BJP is in a position to form the government at the Centre. "The voter knows that there is no option apart from (Prime Minister) Narendra Modiji," the BJP leader insisted.

"The people in opposition are cheaters and corrupt. They don't have any attachment to the development of the country. Their single agenda is to stop Modiji who is not letting them to earn money. And, Modiji's only agenda is to uproot corruption and make India superpower," he added.

Noting that this election is to elect the Prime Minister, he said: "Voters have been thinking on both aspects. But choosing a Prime Minister is a bigger issue than an MP."

Referring to Central government's decision to conduct airstrike on terrorist camp in Pakistan's Balakot province on February 26, the MP said it had gone down well with the people. "The people now feel that they are in hands of a safe government. They feel that only Modiji and the BJP-led government can face any challenge in future," he said.

-Rajnish Singh