Former Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal lashed out at the Bharatiya Janata Party on Sunday and said the national capital has never seen such violence before during an election. Kejriwal, who was allegedly attacked while he was campaigning on Saturday, claimed the BJP is losing Delhi election badly.
#WATCH | Delhi: AAP National Convenor Arvind Kejriwal says, "The kind of campaign we are seeing this time is unseen. The people of Delhi have never seen such violence. A murder attempt was carried out on a former CM. My life is dedicated to the society and the nation. They are… pic.twitter.com/IKdqe8VK1v
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Addressing presspersons in Delhi, Kejriwal charged New Delhi BJP candidate Parvesh Verma's "goons" attacked him on Saturday. "The people of Delhi have never witnessed such campaigning and violence in which a murderous attack was attempted on a former chief minister. This is their way of campaigning because they are badly losing," Kejriwal charged.
Dismissing BJP candidate Verma’s claims that he would lose the New Delhi seat by 20,000 votes, Kejriwal said, “Let him live in dreams for some days.”
Announcing a housing scheme for government servants in Delhi, Kejriwal said he has written to Prime Minister Narendra Modi about a housing scheme for government employees, and said the Delhi government will build the houses if the Centre provides land.
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Kejriwal said, “If the central government provides land at highly subsidised rates, then the Delhi government will get houses constructed on them and government employees will pay in easy instalments and become houseowners. I have requested that we begin this scheme from the sanitation workers of NDMC and Nagar Nigam.” Kejriwal added, “I hope the centre and the PM agree on this because this is for the poor people. Later on, this scheme can be implemented for the other government workers too,” ANI reported.
Both the AAP and the BJP engaged in a war of words on Saturday over an alleged attack on the former chief minister’s car. AAP leaders alleged Kejriwal’s car was attacked with stones by the BJP’s candidate Parvesh Verma. However, BJP countered the allegations and said the former CM’s car hit a BJP worker.
