AAP wants EC to bar UP chief minister from campaigning
Adityanath has failed to fix pressing issues in UP. But he delivers divisive speeches in Delhi. SANJAY SINGH, AAP’s Rajya Sabha MP
NEW DELHI: The AAP on Sunday wrote to the Election Commission of India (EC) demanding a “complete ban” on Uttar Pradesh chief minister Yogi Adityanath from campaigning in Delhi for the BJP.
It also wanted Adityanath’s arrest for his speech in the city on Saturday.
Adityanath in Rohini on Saturday had trained guns at Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal, and stated that protesters in Shaheen Bagh were being fed biryani by the AAP government.
The BJP, later, hit back saying that the AAP was using tactics to stop the party from fielding strong campaigners in the city.
“AAP demands complete ban on Yogi Adityanath from campaigning in Delhi and appeals for his arrest in the light of communal speeches in its complaint lodged with the election commission today,” said the AAP’s Rajya Sabha MP Sanjay Singh.
“Adityanath has failed to fix pressing issues in UP. But he delivers divisive speeches in Delhi. BJP leaders can’t talk about education, health, electricity and water as they have miserably failed in their states.”
Singh also criticised Union home minister Amit Shah. “Under the influence of Amit Shah, Delhi Police is silent and indifferent towards the divisive tactics of the BJP. But the EC can’t remain indifferent to this grave issue,” he said.
On Saturday, Adityanath had spoken in length about issues related to terrorism, national security and attack on security forces in Pulwama, among others.
Adityanath is listed among the BJP’s star campaigners. Senior BJP leader and the party’ Rajya Sabha MP Vijay Goel said, “Kejriwal can foresee his defeat and so he is using such tactics to stop our strong campaigners. The election commission is capable of taking up such cases suo moto. The weak leadership of the Aam Aadmi
Party should focus on their own public meetings and campaigns.”
SHAHEEN BAGH FIGURES IN YOGI’S SPEECH AGAIN
The sit-in protest led by elderly women and children in Shaheen Bagh resonated yet again in BJP leader and Uttar Pradesh chief minister Yogi Adityanath’s campaign Sunday.
“I would have reached here at 5pm, but I was delayed because of protests at Shaheen Bagh,” said Adityanath at a rally in Jaitpur area of Badarpur assembly constituency.
Starting and ending his speech with references to the protests, the CM said that people travelling to Noida, Greater Noida from
Delhi were suffering as they had to spend hours in traffic. “Through Shaheen Bagh, an effort is being made to disrupt public order in Delhi,” he said.
Hitting out at Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal and Congress leader Rahul Gandhi, he said that both opposed all the decisions of the Centre.
“Article 370 was abolished in Kashmir but it was Pakistan and Kejriwal who were pained by this move. You can see two people have opposed abrogation of article 370 and those were Kejriwal and Rahul Gandhi. When the Congress had slyly added article 370 in 1952 then Babasaheb Bhimrao Ambedkar had said that article 370 would become the reason of Algaavvad,” he said.