Kejriwal warns people against voting Congress in LS polls

Tribune News Service
New Delhi, January 6

Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal has warned people against voting for the Congress even as speculations are rife that AAP is in touch with the grand old party for a tie-up for the upcoming Lok Sabha polls.

Addressing a function in Kakrola, he also asked people not to vote for the BJP, alleging that all the seven sitting MPs of the party did nothing for Delhi's development.

"Don't vote for the Congress at all, if you vote for the Congress it will strengthen Narendra Modi. Let not your vote split and give all seven MPs to the AAP," the Aam Aadmi Party chief said.

His remarks assume significance as speculations are making rounds that a pre-poll alliance is possible in Delhi between the AAP and the Congress to stop the BJP in 2019 parliamentary elections.

Both the parties have so far avoided denying such speculations.

Kejriwal also slammed the BJP and the Narendra Modi government over a number of issues, including hike in Metro fares, sealing, alleged voters’ deletion and regularisation of unauthorised colonies in the national capital.

With assurances of regularisation of all unauthorised colonies in the city, stopping sealing and building one mohalla clinic each in every colony in next six months, completing other development works, Kejriwal asked people of Delhi to elect the seven AAP candidates in the Lok Sabha elections.

Kejriwal also alleged the BJP through the Election Commission of India deleted 30-lakh votes, including 15 lakh of poorvanchalis asking people to reject the party’s candidates in upcoming Lok Sabha polls.

“What we have done in the last three-and-a-half years or four years can’t be compared to what the previous governments have done in the last 70 years. When we came to power, government schools were in shambles, no one wanted to send their children to government schools. Now Delhi is proud of its government schools,” he said.

"In its last weeks in office, (the) Modi government shamelessly unleashing CBI on (former Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister) Akhilesh Yadav is a reminder to all that we must not forget what Modi's political opponents have faced during last five years. Time to throw out this dictatorial and undemocratic regime," Kejriwal tweeted.

On January 5, the Central Bureau of Investigation raided 14 locations in Delhi and Uttar Pradesh, including the residences of a female IAS officer, a Samajwadi Party leader and a Bahujan Samaj Party member, in connection with its probe into a case of illegal sand mining.

The CBI has raided the residence and office of Delhi government ministers several times since they came to power in 2015. With Agencies