‘Kejriwal Model hit in Punjab, but Delhi in doldrums under BJP rule’

AAP convener lauds party's govt in Punjab, saying state is now No. 1 in education, improved availability of irrigation water and has undertaken massive anti-drug drive in first 3 years

- HT Correspondent

Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) national convener Arvind Kejriwal on Tuesday lashed out at the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) government in Delhi, accusing it of undoing all the good work done by them during their 10-year rule in the national capital.

Lauding the work done by the AAP government in Punjab, Kejriwal said the state will be number one on most parameters by the time the government completes its five-year term.

‘Addressing a gathering at an event held in Mohali to launch the Punjabi edition of the book “Kejriwal Model”, authored by Jasmine Shah, the former Delhi chief minister claimed the BJP-led Delhi administration had ruined the city, stating that after the AAP left office, services had collapsed. “Mohalla Clinics are being shut down, free medicines and tests discontinued, roads broken and the six-hour power cuts are back,” he claimed after speaking in detail about the change the “Kejriwal Model” had brought there.

Questioning the motives of BJP leaders, Kejriwal said they were in power not to serve but to profit. “We faced obstacles at every step, yet we delivered. I should get a Nobel Prize in administration for managing to work despite the constant interference of the Lieutenant Governor (in Delhi),” he said.

In February this year, the BJP had ended the AAP’s 10-year-rule in Delhi, the city-state where the party was born in 2012 following an anti-corruption agitation.