Opposition rally in Delhi failed to make a mark: BJP
Union Minister Anurag Thakur lashes out at arrested Delhi CM and AAP chief Arvind Kejriwal; Delhi unit president Virendra Sachdeva says people rejected the rally calls of AAP and Congress
On the day of the INDIA bloc’s mega rally in New Delhi, the ruling BJP lashed out at the Opposition alliance with Union Minister Anurag Thakur saying that “thieves and cousins, everyone together pleaded at the Ramlila Maidan”.
“During the Anna [Hazare] movement in Ramlila Maidan, Arvind Kejriwal used to say that I am fighting a war against corruption, will not come into politics, but he also came into politics and today he is in the quagmire of corruption. Earlier, he used to say that maybe there is something in this chair itself, whoever sits starts doing corruption. Today, he has proved his own point,” Mr. Thakur added.
Delhi BJP president Virendra Sachdeva hit out at the rally, claiming that the Opposition alliance failed to make a mark in its first show in the national capital, with the residents of Delhi rejecting the rally calls of the AAP and the Congress.
“Media reports have shown that it was a disunited rally, recording presence of a motley crowd of around few thousand, most of them brought from Punjab and Haryana,” he added.
Leaders of both the Delhi Congress and the AAP who were making tall claims on the rally for the last one week in media briefings could not enthuse even their own party workers, leave alone the people of Delhi, he said.
The disunity between the AAP and the Congress was apparent as a media video showed that the
Congress removed the photo of Mr. Kejriwal put up near the podium on the dais by AAP leaders.
Flawed intentions
Taking a dig at Sunita Kejriwal, wife of the Chief Minister, who announced six guarantees by the AAP supremo currently under ED custody, Mr. Thakur further said: “What kind of alliance is this where there is no discussion, no mutual understanding? They have neither a leader, nor a policy and their intentions are flawed. Today again they have declared guarantees for discussion. Do other leaders of the alliance agree with these guarantees?
Mr. Sachdeva said that the failure of Sunday’s rally had marked the “beginning of the end” of the AAP in Delhi.
BJP spokesperson Sudhanshu Trivedi, in a press conference, cited corruption cases against a host of leaders, including those from the Congress, the DMK and the RJD, to assert that all these charges date back to pre2014 period.