People shunning AAP due to CM’S bad track record: Sheila
If people are choosing us over the AAP, it means they are seeing and believing the good works done by us in the 15 years of Congress government in Delhi.
SHEILA DIKSHIT, Delhi Cong chief
NEW DELHI: Congress’s Delhi unit chief and the party’s candidate from North East Lok Sabha constituency Sheila Dikshit on Saturday said that votes in Delhi shifted to the grand old party because of the “bad track record” of Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) chief and Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal.
Dikshit’s comment came after Kejriwal, in an interview to a news daily on Friday, said that around “13% of Muslim votes got shifted to Congress in Delhi at the last moment.”
On Saturday Dikshit — a three-time chief minister of Delhi — said that the Congress would win all seven seats in the national Capital because of its “good track record”. “If people are choosing us over the AAP, it means they are seeing and believing the good works done by us in the 15 years in Delhi. It is clearly a reflection of [Arvi nd] Kejriwal’s track record,” she said.
On Friday, Kejriwal had told a newspaper that the Muslim vote in Delhi “shifted” to the Congress at the last minute during the Lok Sabha polls. Delhi went to polls on May 12 and the city has seven parliamentary seats.
Dikshit also said that Delhiites do not like or even understand Kejriwal’s governance model. “Be it Muslims, Sikhs, or anyone for that matter, every voter is important. We don’t discriminate based on their religion. Everyone including Muslims, Dalits, backward classes, women and all other sections of the society have strongly supported us,” she said.
Several AAP leaders later took to Twitter to defend Kejriwal’s statement.