In the upcoming assembly elections, BJP MP Anurag Thakur on Friday said Delhi voters will make former Chief Minister and Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) convener Arvind Kejriwal ‘stump’ or ‘clean bowl’. However, at a campaign event for his party, Thakur spoke of pressing needs for Delhi citizens — clean drinking water, clean air, a pollution-free Yamuna River. “They are going to get ‘stumped’ and ‘clean bowled’ because people in Delhi are fed up with your unfulfilled promises,” he said.
Former Union Minister for Sports and a former cricketer for Himachal Pradesh, Thakur was also the President of the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI). Looking at his cricketing background, he used sports metaphors to help push his political message.
Thakur hit out at AAP, calling it ‘Aapda’ (disaster), a word coined earlier by Prime Minister Narendra Modi. ‘Party is betraying Delhi’s women and its policies, it’s anti women, they (BJP) are the ones who have been anti-women’, he accused. In addition, he slammed the lack of AAP female leaders, including the current Chief Minister of the state Atishi, on election hoardings and raised a question mark on the party’s genuineness about equality for gender.
Thakur also questioned the security arrangements of the former CM, who the Punjab Police have allegedly given Z+ security to despite having ceased to be in office in Delhi and Punjab. He asked why the CM, who does not hold any position in Punjab, is under such a high level of security.
The Delhi assembly elections look set to be a straight fight between the BJP and AAP. The BJP has been out of power in the capital for almost three decades, while the AAP replaced Congress at the helm of the city in December 2013. The result is still very debatable between both parties.
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