New Delhi, Jan 03: Prime Minister Narendra Modi slammed the ruling Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) saying “those who have been in power in Delhi for the last 10 years – have damaged school education”.
Addressing a public meeting in Ashok Vihar’s Ramlila Ground, PM Narendra Modi said, “A new college in the name of Veer Savarkar is going to be built in Najafgarh… Those who have been in power in Delhi for the last 10 years – have damaged school education. The money that the central government has given to Delhi – the current govt of Delhi hasn’t even spend half of that money in education…”
“…Even after Independence, such works (New Education Policy) were not done, ‘lekin aapke sevak ne kar diya’…,” PM Modi said.
PM Modi also attacked AAP national convenor Arvind Kejriwal and said, “In the last 10 years, Delhi has been surrounded by an ‘Aapda’. By keeping Anna Hazare at the front, a few ‘kattar beimaan’ people have pushed Delhi towards ‘Aapda’. ‘AAP aapda bankar Delhi par toot padi hai’…”
PM Modi continued his attack: “…Ye AAP, ye ‘aapda’, Delhi par aayi hai’, and hence the people of Delhi have waged a war against ‘aapda’. Voters of Delhi have made up their minds to free Delhi from this ‘aapda’. Every voter of Delhi is saying, ‘aapda ko nahi sahenge, badal ke rahenge’…”
PM Modi also attacked the AAP over pollution in the Yamuna river and said, “Every resident of Delhi can see the situation of Yamuna. Look at their (AAP) shamelessness, what kind of ‘aapda is this, they say that cleaning Yamuna won’t get them votes – will you leave Yamuna like this if it doesn’t get you votes?… This ‘aapda’ has handed over the lives of people of Delhi in the hands of tanker mafia…”
Hitting back, Delhi Chief Minister Atishi said that BJP has no agenda for the assembly polls.
“BJP has no agenda for elections. BJP has been in power at the centre for 10 years, they have a budget of lakhs of crores, they should tell one thing they have done for the people of Delhi, they have not done any work. Today they have no vision for Delhi, they have no CM face. AAP has worked for the people of Delhi for 10 years…,” Atishi told reporters.
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People call it ‘Ashirwad’: Kejriwal hits back
Hitting back at Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s ‘Aapda’ (crisis) at the Aam Aadmi Party-led Delhi government, party’s national convenor Arvind Kejriwal on Friday highlighted his government’s works in the national capital and said that people consider this as a ‘Aashirwad’ (blessing).
“Jo kaam AAP Sarkar kar rahi hai use log aapda nahi aashirwad kehte hai (The work the AAP government is doing isn’t a crisis; people call it a blessing),” Kejriwal said at a press conference today, adding that there are three “Aapda” (crisis) in the BJP.
“Aapda Delhi mein nahi BJP mein aayi hai (The crisis isn’t in Delhi; it’s within the BJP). The first crisis for the BJP is that they don’t have a Chief Ministerial face. The second is that they lack a narrative — they don’t even know what issues to contest the election on. The third crisis is that they don’t have an agenda for this election. These three crises are within the BJP,” he said.
Speaking further, Kejriwal emphasized that over the last 10 years, the AAP government has achieved so much in education, healthcare, electricity, water, and roads that listing of these achievements could take hours.
“In contrast, the BJP government hasn’t done a single thing in ten years that the Prime Minister could proudly highlight in his speeches. If they had accomplished anything, they would be showcasing it instead of criticizing the people of Delhi,” Kejriwal said.
“During the 2020 elections, the Prime Minister made several promises to the people. He had assured that by 2022, every person in Delhi would have a permanent house. This was also stated in their manifesto. Today, the Prime Minister handed over the keys to 1,700 houses. This isn’t the first time — in total, they have constructed only 4,700 houses in five years. Delhi needs 1.5 million houses, yet only 4,700 have been built in five years,” the AAP supremo added.
Kejriwal further claimed that in the past five years, the BJP have rendered 2,78,796 people homeless by demolishing slums. “The Prime Minister had promised permanent housing but deceived the people. By the 2030 elections, they plan to demolish all slums in Delhi. These people are enemies of the poor. In five years, I built 530 mohalla clinics; had the PM built 5,000, he would’ve earned praise. I constructed five new hospitals; had he (PM) built 50, he wouldn’t have needed to criticize me,” he said.
The assembly elections in Delhi are due in February and the dates for the same are expected to be announced in a few days.
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