Taking a sharp dig at Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and Prime Minister Narendra Modi, AAP chief and former Delhi Chief Minister Aravind Kejriwal challenged the Prime MInister Narendra Modi to provide free electricity in all NDA-ruled states before the upcoming Delhi Assembly elections. He even promised to campaign for the BJP if this demand is met.
Addressing his ‘Janata Ki Adalat’ event at Chhatrasal stadium in Delhi on Sunday in the National Capital, he termed BJP’s “double engine” model as “double loot and double corruption”.
“People are saying PM Modi has done nothing in his 10 years of power. If he does something now, at least in the last year, people might say he achieved something. There’s an election in Delhi in February. I ask him to make electricity free in 22 states, and I’ll campaign for him,” said Kejriwal.
“The exit polls show the BJP’s double engine governments will soon collapse in Haryana and Jammu and Kashmir,” he added. He is also sure that it will be again demolished in the forthcoming Maharashtra and Jharkhand assembly polls.
Kejriwal further accused the BJP of being anti-poor, citing the removal of bus marshals and data entry operators as well as the halting of home guards’ salaries in Delhi. “There is no democracy in Delhi. It’s under LG’s rule,” he alleged.
He said that the law and order situation in Delhi is worsening and compared it to the underworld rule in Mumbai during the 90s. “Bullets are being fired daily, crime is on the rise, and BJP is busy stopping Delhi government’s work. We introduced bus marshals to protect women, but they stopped it.”
Meanwhile, in a firm rebuttal to Kejriwal’s remarks, BJP MP Bansuri Swaraj said, “While Kejriwal holds his ‘Janata Ki Adalat’, the people of Delhi have already given their verdict by electing BJP in all seven Lok Sabha seats in the city. For a decade, the AAP government has only engaged in propaganda and corruption.”
