Shah posts school video to target Kejri

Vibha Sharma

Tribune News Service

New Delhi, January 28

From communal/controversial statements to cornering the incumbent AAP on popular schemes, the BJP is leaving no stone unturned in the fight for Delhi, operating a multi-pronged strategy to win the prestigious Assembly elections.

While top leaders attacked Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on issues he considers his biggest calling cards/achievements — schools/education, DTC buses and ‘bijli paani’— second rung leaders like Delhi MP Parvesh Verma carried on with statements related to anti-CAA protests at Shaheen Bagh.

Both claims were rejected by Kejriwal, who in turn accused the BJP of insulting students and teachers of his schools and bringing in ‘outsiders’ to campaign. Armed with ‘evidence’ to challenge saffron claims, he also urged people to recount all the work his government had done in the past five years before BJP leaders when they came seeking votes. Shah said his MPs found Delhi Government schools in a “miserable” condition “exposing” Kejriwal’s claims. In his post, BJP’s MPs could be seen inspecting condition of schools.

Nadda told the Delhi CM his government had made the life of those who commute via buses “difficult and miserable”. “You promised to give 5,000 new DTC buses. On the contrary in past five years the number of buses has reduced by 1,000. The Supreme Court also reprimanded you repeatedly, asking you to purchase 11,000 buses. Despite that, your government kept sleeping,” he said.

Besides cornering Kejriwal on his schemes, the BJP is also sharpening attack on the Shaheen Bagh issue. A day after Law Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad called the protests a “textbook case” of a few hundred people “suppressing” the “silent majority” and Minister of State for Finance Anurag Thakur led the chant “shoot the country’s traitors”, Parvesh Verma was quoted as saying what happened in Kashmir with Kashmiri Pandits could happen in Delhi.