The BJP is likely to pick Delhi's new Chief Minister from the Baniya community, according to sources.
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00:00All right, more news coming in.
00:02This has got to do with our sources and what they are indicating.
00:07There is a high possibility of a candidate from the Baniya community becoming the Delhi
00:12Chief Minister is what we are learning.
00:14This is, in fact, what we are picking up from our sources.
00:16I'm going to go straight across to Piyush Mishra, getting in more details from the BJP
00:21headquarters there.
00:22Piyush, do give us a sense of what is brewing.
00:25What are the calculations being kept in mind before zeroing down on one name?
00:29Like I've been saying, we have been talking about this and this is a party which is, in
00:33fact, known to give surprises when it comes to big announcements of this nature, isn't
00:40it?
00:41Well, absolutely.
00:42Like you rightly mentioned, Sneha, that BJP is a party which is known to throw surprises
00:46and we have seen this in Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan and in various states also where new faces
00:52have been given the opportunity.
00:53And here also we can expect BJP to make a new face, a new face Chief Minister of Delhi.
01:00Remember that earlier there was a very popular say that BJP is a party of Baniyas and now
01:06when a party has appointed two observers who come from Purvanchali and Jat Belt, Ravi Shankar
01:11Prasad and O.P.
01:12Dhankar respectively, then we can also, you know, calculate that yes, if party announces
01:20Chief Minister then he or she could be from Baniya community.
01:23Now we have two top contenders in that list which we are also discussing with our viewers
01:28and this includes the name of Vijayendra Gupta and Rekha Gupta.
01:33Vijayendra Gupta is the one who has been leading the party's fight in the last three elections.
01:39In fact, he was also the leader of opposition and he has been leading the entire charge
01:44for BJP in Vidhan Sabha.
01:45Now Rekha Gupta is a female contender and she also tops the list of among the four MLAs,
01:52four women MLAs and she also comes from the Baniya community.
01:55So most likely if Baniya is made Chief Minister then Vijayendra Gupta and Rekha Gupta have
02:00all the chances.
02:01We have to wait and watch when the party is going to take a decision but looking at the
02:05list of observers, the names of observers who come from Purvanchali and Jat Belt, now
02:12the most chances are of a Baniya leader to become the next Chief Minister of Delhi, Sreya.
02:17Right, I'm going to thank you for the moment.
02:18Getting in those details is my colleague Piyush from the National Capital.
02:22So what we are picking up is that the CM phase from the Baniya community likely is what Piyush
02:26has gathered from his sources within the Bharatiya Janata Party.