Aam Aadmi Party chief Arvind Kejriwal hit out at the BJP-led Uttar Pradesh government as well as its predecessors, contending that they had “constructed graveyards and cremation grounds”. Kicking off the party’s campaign ahead of the assembly elections, the Delhi Chief Minister urged people to give his party a chance in the upcoming contest.
Kejriwal said that in the past 75 years other political parties had “deliberately kept the people of the country poor and uneducated so that we can become their vote bank”. He also questioned the UP government over its handling of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.
“In the last 5 years, Yogi ji not only constructed graveyards but also sent people to graveyards. COVID-19 management in UP was the worst in the world,” the AAP national convenor said in Lucknow.
With mere months left for the state elections, Kejriwal assured on Sunday that a government helmed by his party would build schools and hospitals in Uttar Pradesh. “Yogi ji tumse na ho paega. If the people of UP want good schools, give one chance to the AAP,” he added.
The Delhi CM also promised that if an AAP government was formed, it would give Rs 1000 every month to all women above the age of 18.
“Yogi ji spent crores of rupees on advertisement in America’s biggest magazine. There are 850 hoardings of Yogi ji all over Delhi and 106 posters of the Delhi government. Sometimes I wonder whether he’s contesting from Delhi or UP,” he jibed. The BJP, Kejriwal alleged, had “burnt” the tax money from people’s earnings “because they did not run the government”.
