DEVELOPMENT ‘STALLED’ FOR 8 YEARS, SAYS BJP

NEW DELHI: Union ministers Dharmendra Pradhan and Anurag Thakur on Thursday hit out at the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP), accusing it of corruption, and saying the party has not developed the city despite being in power (in the state government) for the eight years.

Thakur, who addressed three public meetings in Vasant Kunj, Palam and Madhu Vihar, accused chief minister Arvind Kejriwal of appeasement politics. “The appeasement politics of the Kejriwal government was exposed when it started paying salaries to maulvis, but did not give salaries to pandits and granthis of temples and gurudwaras,” Thakur said.

Pradhan, who held a roadshow in the municipal wards of the Greater Kailash assembly constituency, claimed AAP MLAS were not visible during the Covid pandemic while BJP workers were on the ground helping people. “The Delhi government and the AAP both disappointed people during the Covid period.”

The AAP did not comment on the ministers’ remarks.