‘Kejriwal an outsider, will send him back to Ghaziabad’
SUNIL YADAV of the BJP has been assigned a herculean task — defeating Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal in the New Delhi Assembly constituency in the Assembly polls. In an interview with
Nitin Kumar, he discusses his campaign strategy — job creation and improving women’s security. Edited excerpts:
You are the candidate who will take on Kejriwal. How confident are you for a victory?
I am 100 per cent confident that I will send Kejriwal back to Ghaziabad. He is an outsider to the constituency, whereas I have lived here for the past 12 years. I am going to people with our policies for Delhi’s development. And people know that if the BJP says something, it will do it. Job creation is my top priority, because Kejriwal has failed by not providing a single job in the past five years.
People want to know who your CM candidate is. How do you plan to explain them?
BJP is the largest and most popular party in the world, but everybody is a common worker here. There have been several instances in the past where the party has not declared a CM candidate. We didn’t declare CM candidate in Haryana, Maharashtra, and Uttar Pradesh, but won. After winning, we democratically decided our CM.
Who do you consider your Opponent, Congress or Aam Aadmi Party?
We are fighting the polls against Congress. We do not consider Kejriwal a challenge, because the people of Delhi have decided to teach him a lesson for his lies and deceit. He has wasted taxpayers’ money on advertisements.
Kejriwal released a report card saying he has fulfilled all promises. Your response?
He has not done anything. He has only alleged that the central government and Lieutenant Governor didn’t allow him to work. He has started giving freebies and sops to people in the past 3 months. I want to ask him, have they not stopped you now? He had promised to open 500 schools, 20 colleges in Delhi. I want to ask him, has he opened a single school, college or university?
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Kejriwal wants to deceive people by making false statements. It is not going to get him any success this time because Prime Minister Narendra Modi has fulfilled his promise of providing ownership rights to residents of unauthorised colonies. It was the BJP that fought for them and people recognise this. They will vote for us because they want to see real development, which AAP has not been able to deliver.
What is your plan for improving women’s safety in Delhi?
Women’s safety is BJP ’s top priority. With the help of the central government we will create more women p olice stations, install more CCT V cameras. We will double our budget for women’s security.