Lok Sabha polls | Will ensure Modi guarantees reach every resident, develop start-up hub in New Delhi, says Bansuri Swaraj

BJP candidate Bansuri Swaraj promises to ensure Modi's welfare schemes reach every Delhiite, focusing on youth employment and startups.

BJP candidate from New Delhi Bansuri Swaraj on April 12 said after becoming a member of Parliament she will ensure Prime Minister Narendra Modi's guarantees reach every Delhiite and also try to develop a start-up hub which will open new avenues of employment, especially for the youth.

In an interaction with PTI editors at the agency's headquarters, she asserted that she will do everything, including even knocking at the doors of the law, to make sure Delhiites are not deprived of welfare schemes of the Modi government due to Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal's "selfish politics".

Ms. Swaraj, daughter of late BJP stalwart and former External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj, is making her electoral debut by contesting against Aam Aadmi Party leader Somnath Bharti. She was fielded by the party, dropping two-time sitting MP and Union minister Meenakshi Lekhi.

Listing her priorities and plans for the New Delhi constituency, Ms. Swaraj said she was very much enthused and impressed by the Modi government's schemes like Stand-Up India, Startup India and Lakhpati Didi.

"I would like to set up a start-up hub in the New Delhi area. It is a nascent idea to have under one roof to provide knowledge that is required for compliances and what kind of presentations you need to take to angel investors, how viable is the idea- everything under one roof," she said.

Ms. Swaraj hoped that the start-up hub in New Delhi will open new avenues of employment, specially for the youth.

"I would also like this to have a component of self help groups in it. This is something very close to my heart," she said.