Talk show designed to glorify Kejriwal, says BJP
NEW DELHI: The Delhi unit of Bhartiya Janata Party on Sunday slammed chief minister Arvind Kejriwal’s show as being a self-designed self-glorification campaign that was also used to attack the Centre.
“In the name of questions, only five were taken up and even they were those which helped him speak about himself,” said Delhi BJP president Satish Upadhyay.
“Common man would ask questions about development, while the questions that were taken up related to appointment of parliamentary secretaries, salaries of MPs and MLAs or conflicts with the Centre,” he said.
He alleged the show was done to influence the electorate of Punjab, Goa and Gujarat, all poll-bound states. Upadhyay also likened the show to a “haughty Tughlaq saying Meri Baat Suno and Sirf Meri Baat Suno”.
He further accused Kejriwal of trying to copy the Prime Minister’s ‘Mann ki Baat’ show.
“He is running away from his primary responsibility of managing problems faced by people like sanitation, hospitals, waterlogging,” said BJP national secretary Shrikant Sharma.
In his show, Kejriwal accused the Modi dispensation of turning its ties with Delhi government into an “India-Pakistan” situation.
Delhi Congress president Ajay Maken said, “It was an attempt by Kejriwal to further his own national political ambitions at expense of Delhi taxpayer’s money. Most of what he said was a monologue. Every sentence was half baked and full of lies”.
Senior Congress leader Abhishek Manu Singhvi tweeted, “Tall claims of cleanliness and screening, still so many corrupt party members! Is screening bad or were corrupt knowingly allowed?”
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