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Criticises Rahul, Modi for spending crores on ad blitz
Launching his party’s Lok Sabha election campaign, Aam Aadmi
Party leader Arvind Kejriwal on Friday named several leaders
across the political spectrum who, according to him, represent
“corrupt, criminal and dynastic politics.”
Inaugurating the opening session of the AAP’s National Council
meeting here, Mr. Kejriwal read out a list which included Suresh
Kalmadi, Sushilkumar Shinde, Kapil Sibal, P. Chidambaram, Kamal
Nath, Veerappa Moily, Pawan Kumar Bansal, G.K. Vasan, Tarun
Gogoi, Naveen Jindal, Anu Tandon, and Avtaar Singh Bhadana (all
Congress); Nitin Gadkari, B.S. Yeddyurappa, Ananth Kumar, and
Anurag Thakur (all BJP); Mulayam Singh (SP); Sharad Pawar and
Praful Patel (both NCP); M.K. Alagiri, Kanimozhi and A. Raja (all
DMK); H.D. Kumaraswamy (JD-S); Jaganmohan Reddy(YSR
Congress); Mayawati (BSP) and Farooq Abdullah (National
Conference).
The AAP, he vowed, would put up candidates against each of them
in the Lok Sabha election.
The Delhi Chief Minister also took a dig at Congress vice-president
Rahul Gandhi and the BJP’s prime ministerial candidate Narendra
Modi for spending over “Rs.500 crore on branding” and an image-
building exercise.
“Can these people who are spending so much for branding
themselves provide an honest government? The expensive
branding of these leaders will not only fuel inflation after they
come to power, they will recover the money from us, tax payers,”
he said.
Mr. Kejriwal’s charges invited a sharp response from the Congress,
which said that “making a list [of corrupt politicians] requires only
a pen, paper and a subjective mind.”
“We are not justice, jury and prosecutor rolled into one. We do not
have to confess that we are anarchist, as this Chief Minister seems
to have done,” Congress spokesman Abhishek Singhvi said.
But, the party said it would continue to give outside support to the
minority AAP government in Delhi.
Former BJP chief Nitin Gadkari threatened to sue Mr. Kejriwal if he
did not apologise, while Mr. Abdullah said he would give a “fitting
reply in court.”
Mr. Kejriwal told the National Council: “Our aim is not to seize
power or play power politics ... We want to change the corrupt
system that prevents an aam aadmi from entering Parliament.”