‘AAP stalled Centre’s schemes’
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They will continue to create roadblocks to development because they know nothing other than playing politics. You have seen a lot in the last two decades and suffered much... that’s why the BJP needs to come to power. NARENDRA MODI, prime minister
NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday accused Delhi’s ruling Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) of stalling central government’s welfare schemes in Delhi and appealed to the masses to vote for the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) to “shape the future” of the city.
“As long as they (the AAP) remain in power, they will continue to create roadblocks in the development works because they know nothing other than playing politics. You have seen a lot in the last two decades and suffered much. Now there is only one option and that’s why the BJP needs to come to power in Delhi,” Modi said at a rally in east Delhi’s Karkardooma on Monday.
The rally was held in support of BJP candidates from at least 20 assembly constituencies of east and northeast Delhi for the February 8 elections. Results will be declared on February 11.
Modi mocked the city government for not being able to provide clean water to the people and said that the BJP-led central government aims to provide ‘pucca’ houses to all poor families by 2022 which will have “clean water” supply.
“Jaha jhuggi wahi pucca ghar banega. Aisa ghar jisme bijli hogi, gas connection hoga, nal hoga, nal me jal hoga aur jal bhi shuddh hoga. (Permanent houses will be made at the same place where a jhuggi is located. The house will be such as it will have electricity, toilet, gas connection and clean water through water taps),” Modi said at the rally.
“I feel sad when I see that Prime Minister Awas Yojana (PMAY) is not being implemented in Delhi…We could not make a single home under in Delhi because of (non-cooperation of) the incumbent government…the 21st century India will be propelled through vikas ki rastra niti (national policy of development) and not through hate politics. It will take the country to new heights,” Modi added.
Modi also listed the Centre’s decision to give ownership rights to residents of unauthorised colonies and hit out at the present and the previous governments for stalling it.
He asserted that the BJP had fulfilled its promise to the Delhi when they passed a law to provide ownership rights to the nearly 4 million residents of 1731 unauthorised colonies in the city.
“We are finding solutions to decades-old problems affecting the country. Despite many roadblocks, we have delivered on our promise to people of Delhi that we will regularise unauthorised colonies.
After February 11 when BJP/ NDA government will be formed in Delhi, development works in such colonies will take place on greater pace,” Modi said.
PM ACCUSES AAP OF PREJUDICE AGAINST PURVANCHALIS
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday accused the ruling Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) of being “prejudiced” against the Purvanchal community, a term used in reference to people from east
Uttar Pradesh and Bihar.
Addressing supporters at a rally in east Delhi’s Karkardooma, Modi referred to Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar’s statement on Sunday that buses from Patna have been denied permission to enter Delhi.
“I heard Nitish Kumar’s speech yesterday. What kind of prejudice do they have against Biharis that forces them to take such decisions?” Modi said without naming either the ruling party in Delhi or its chief minister Arvind Kejriwal.
The densely populated east and northeast Delhi have a significant population of Purvanchalis.
The BJP is eyeing the support of the Purvanchal community, which played a decisive role in AAP’s sterling performance in the 2015 assembly elections in which the party had won 67 out of the 70 assembly segments.
In a bid to woo the community, the BJP, for the first time, has fielded 10 Purvanchali candidates in the assembly elections scheduled on February 8.
The BJP referred to Kejriwal’s (without naming him) comment on “Bihari patients” last year and said, “These people say that Biharis buy a ₹500 ticket and come to Delhi and get treatment worth lakhs done here. This is their view about the people of Bihar,” the PM said.
Delhi BJP chief Manoj Tiwari, too, had raised the issue at the rally and said that the CM had insulted the people of Purvanchal with his “₹500 ticket” comment. He praised the community for its hard work and contribution in the country’s growth. Hitting out at the AAP (without naming it) the PM said, “Biharis work so hard and have played an important role in country and city’s development.”
“But these people have such hatred for them. I feel pained by it,” he added.