BJP and Congress slam AAP’s ‘people’s meeting’, point to Kejriwal’s ‘misrule’

Delhi BJP President Virendra Sachdeva; MPs Ramvir Singh Bidhuri and Yogender Chandolia; Leader of Opposition in the Delhi Assembly Vijender Gupta; Raaj Kumar Anand, former Delhi minister who quit AAP to join BSP before jumping to the BJP; and Media Chief Praveen Shankar Kapoor participated in the protest.

Targeting Kejriwal, Sachdeva said he should not be under the impression that resigning would resolve issues. The AAP leader will have to give an answer for 10 years of “corrupt misgovernance”, he said. “The people of Delhi will repose their trust in the BJP (in the Delhi Assembly elections). After that, we will investigate every act of corruption by the Kejriwal government,” Sachdeva said.

Kejriwal tried to run the government both from jail and when he was on bail, but was shown that neither was possible, said Gupta. “Over the last six months, water shortage, broken roads, and now the revelation of corruption have reached the people. Kejriwal’s fake janta adalat can no longer save him,” he said.

Echoing similar views, Delhi Congress president Devender Yadav said Kejriwal’s “sole focus was on making money”. Damaged roads, depleted bus fleet, waterlogging, power tariff hikes, non-functioning street lights and the terrible condition of the mohalla clinics are a testimony to Kejriwal’s misrule, he added.

“Kejriwal’s bid to project himself as a ‘khattar imaandaar’ before the people has only made him a laughing stock… (he) got bail in the liquor scam case after the courts, including the apex court, denied him bail several times, which proves that the courts have evidence against him to establish his involvement,” he said.