BJP unleashes star-studded campaign to outdo AAP

BJP leader Ravi Kishan campaigning for a party candidate in the Capital on Monday.
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Intensifying its campaign in the Capital, the Bharatiya Janata Party organised 26 public meetings on Monday. Star campaigners from the party hit the ground running, attacked AAP and appealed for power shift so that the city could leap ahead with a double-engine government.

Rajasthan Chief Minister Bhajan Lal addressed public meetings supporting candidates Anil Goyal in Krishna Nagar and Pradyuman Rajput in Dwarka. He claimed every city in Rajasthan has better drainage system than Delhi. “The way children, old and young people died by drowning in water in Delhi last monsoon, it is hard to believe that Delhi is the country’s capital,” he said.

Union Minister Hardeep Singh Puri, backing Harish Khurana in Moti Nagar and Umang Bajaj in Rajendra Nagar, targeted the drinking water crisis. “Under Arvind Kejriwal’s misrule, whether poor or rich, everyone is facing drinking water crisis,” he alleged. “They are forced to buy water to drink but the sewerage system is not working in these two Assembly constituencies. Last monsoon there was such waterlogging that four UPSC candidates died untimely. Mr. Kejriwal should apologise to the people of Delhi for such chaos,” he added.

Union Minister of State Dr. Sukanto Majumdar, talking up Dushyant Gautam   in Karol Bagh, said the migrants who have settled in Delhi are ashamed that the roads and general facilities of their BJP-ruled home States are better than the country’s Capital.

‘Hurting Purvanchalis’

MP Manoj Tiwari addressed public meetings in Badarpur, Tughlakabad,  Sangam Vihar and Chhatarpur and fumed that the Purvanchal community of Delhi is fed up with Mr. Kejriwal’s misrule and it would stand with the BJP for the city’s better future.

MP Ravi Kishan campaigned extensively for the third consecutive day. In the Purvanchal Samaj Samvad programmes in Wazirpur, Patparganj, Malviya Nagar and Model Town, he alleged that Mr. Kejriwal insults Purvanchal pride by saying that they come with a ₹500 ticket and run away after getting free treatment worth ₹5 lakh. The Purvanchal society settled in Delhi will not forgive him for insulting them and will send him off on February 8.  

Deputy Chief Minister of Rajasthan, Premchand Bairwa, campaigned door to door and conducted a massive public meeting supporting Anil Gaur in Seelampur.