A day before Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s rally
at the Ramlila Maidan in the Capital, the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) on Friday
launched a Twitter campaign #DelhiasksPMModi to rake up the issue of giving
full statehood to Delhi, one of the prominent poll promises of the Bharatiya
Janata Party (BJP) during the last Assembly and the Lok Sabha elections.
Attacking the saffron party for making tall
promises of conferring statehood to Delhi and slashing electricity tariff, the
Twitter campaign asks people about what they are expecting from Modi. “PM
addressing Delhi tomorrow for the first time. What are your expectations from
him tomorrow? Tomorrow Modi ji addresses Delhi. He had promised full statehood
to Delhi. Will he announce that tomorrow? Or will BJP do a U-turn on this issue
also?” former Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal said in a series of tweets.
The PM is expected to make major announcements in
Saturday’s rally which will mark the official launch of BJP’s campaign for the
upcoming Assembly polls in the Capital.
Kejriwal tweeted: “Before polls, BJP announced 30
per cent reduction in electricity rates. Delhi eagerly hoping that PM would
announce that tomorrow #DelhiasksPMModi.” He accused the BJP of not only
failing to slash the electricity tariff, but also not being able to curb
inflation and corruption.
The AAP leader said: “Now I would like to remind
Modi ji about the promise that his party had made before the last Delhi
Assembly election. Not only me, but people of Delhi want to know whether he
will announce power tariff cut by 30 per cent. Besides, inflation and
corruption have also hit Delhiites very hard.”
Senior AAP leader and former minister in the
Kejriwal government Manish Sisodia said: “The issue of statehood has aspects
like law and order, land transactions and multiciplity of agencies. The law
enforcement agency should be under the direct control of the elected government
of Delhi. There are many agencies in the national Capital that hamper work.”
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