BJP dividing people on religion, caste lines: Delhi CM

KARNAL: Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) supremo and Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal on Sunday accused his Haryana counterpart Manohar Lal Khattar of dividing people on the basis religion and caste, and seeking votes on caste lines in the recently concluded mayoral elections in the state.

“They earlier divided jats and non-jats during the reservation agitation in 2016 and now they were trying to divide punjabis and non-punjabis. The BJP’S mayoral candidate in Karnal had issued advertisements in newspaper appealing the people of Punjabi community to vote for BJP, which has given a Punjabi CM,” Kejriwal said while addressing the AAP’S hospital and school rally here. He alleged that the BJP was dividing people on the basis of religion and caste and “they were helping Pakistan, which was trying to divide India since 1947”. He said the people should not get misled by BJP in the coming elections.

Kejriwal said people of communities and castes felt cheated after this advertisement.

“We don’t have any objection if Khattar saab works only for Punjabis, but what was the fault of others who had voted for him?” he asked. However, Kejriwal did not speak about the arrest of his party workers for allegedly circulating fake news.

He also slammed the successive governments and political parties for failing to provide better education and medical facilities to people, even after 70 years of independence.

“We made all government schools and hospitals in Delhi better only in out three-year rule, but these parties and previous governments failed to do so in the past 70 years,“he said.