As talks between the Bharatiya Janata Get together (BJP) and Janata Dal (United) (JDU) over an alliance for the Delhi elections decide up tempo, the Nitish Kumar-led get together Tuesday joined the BJP’s assault in opposition to AAP nationwide convener Arvind Kejriwal for allegedly making derogatory remarks in opposition to Biharis and Purvanchalis.
In a press convention on the get together’s Jantar Mantar officer, the JDU performed a purported video of Kejriwal from the Covid interval the place he’s heard saying that individuals from Bihar come to Delhi on a Rs 500 ticket and return after free well being remedy value Rs 5 lakh.
JDU Working President Sanjay Kumar Jha mentioned, “Lately, we regularly hear of Kejriwal’s love for Bihar and Purvanchal. However look what he’s saying within the video. In the course of the Covid interval, he compelled individuals from Bihar and Purvanchal into buses and dropped them off on the Delhi border. Individuals had been chased away from town. Nitish Kumar, then again, deposited cash within the accounts of all these caught in Delhi. Meals camps had been organised to feed individuals.”
Singh additionally emphasised that JDU would contest the Delhi polls in alliance with the BJP. “Seat-sharing talks are nonetheless on. However we’ll contest with the BJP,” he mentioned.
BJP sources mentioned whereas the JDU was searching for tickets on three seats, two different NDA allies – the Chirag Paswan-led Lok Janshakti Get together (Ram Vilas) (LJP) and Jayant Chaudhary’s Rashtriya Lok Dal (RLD) – had been additionally asking for a share from among the many capital’s 70 Meeting constituencies as per a three-one-one components.
The JDU, in a tie-up with the BJP, had contested from the Purvanchali-majority Burari and Sangam Vihar seats within the 2020 Delhi Meeting elections; the RLD from Burari; and the LJP from Kirari, Bijwasan Laxmi Nagar, Seemapuri and Mustafabad.
Former get together chief and union minister Rajiv Ranjan Singh mentioned the get together would go on a marketing campaign throughout Delhi with the purported video and “expose” Kejriwal forward of elections.
“Have a look at the language utilized by Kejriwal for Purvanchalis. Is Delhi his private property? That is the nationwide capital. Kejriwal is a hypocrite and an opportunist. He’s not even a politician. He’s a bureaucrat with political ambitions. He’s saying the BJP is in opposition to Purvanchalis. Nobody is as in opposition to Purvanchalis as you. You have got ruined Delhi. You have got turned a income surplus state right into a loss-making state by distributing revdis,” Singh mentioned.
The JDU outburst comes within the wake of an argument over a purported assertion by BJP president J P Nadda in Rajya Sabha which AAP has claimed to be in opposition to Purvanchalis.
Accusing the BJP of conspiring to “strip Delhi’s Purvanchal group of their dignity and voting rights”, Kejriwal Friday had attacked Nadda for allegedly making “offensive” remarks in opposition to the group in Parliament.
“Simply two days in the past, BJP president Nadda made deeply offensive remarks in opposition to the Purvanchali group in Parliament. He in contrast the Purvanchalis dwelling in Delhi to Rohingya infiltrators and Bangladeshis, and acknowledged that BJP staff had been filling out kinds to have their names faraway from voter lists,” Kejriwal alleged.
After taking part in a purported video wherein Nadda could possibly be seen talking, Kejriwal added, “We strongly condemn this act and regard it as a well-planned conspiracy in opposition to a complete group. On one hand, BJP leaders model Purvanchalis as ‘Rohingyas’ and Bangladeshis; on the opposite, they try and strip them of their citizenship.”
The BJP has since been attacking Kejriwal, saying individuals from Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, and Haryana had not forgotten that he repeatedly acknowledged that Delhi’s border hospitals and colleges had been “below heavy strain from outsiders”.
JDU’s Singh on Tuesday mentioned Nadda’s remarks had been made within the context of Rohingyas and never Purvanchalis.
In the meantime, BJP sources mentioned every of its NDA allies had requested for a share of seats from particular areas primarily based on the demography.
“Whereas the JDU is known to be asking for Burari amongst three Purvanchali-majority seats, the RLD is asking for a seat from Jat-majority West or South Delhi and the LJP for one of many 12 SC-reserved seats within the metropolis. The ultimate resolution might be taken by our nationwide leaders and conveyed to their counterparts within the three NDA events over the approaching days,” a BJP chief mentioned.
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