AAP, BJP slug it out on slums, 'infiltrators'

BJP leaders said the AAP govt had reneged on key promises made in 2020. The AAP in turn said the BJP would destroy slums if it wins

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A fresh political slugfest erupted between the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) on Sunday with senior leaders from both ends accusing each other of reneging on promises made during the run-up to previous state and general elections, creating fake identity cards, allowing illegal Bangladeshi nationals into the Capital, and of inadequate security on international borders — at four different press conferences in Delhi.

Union petroleum minister Hardeep Singh Puri accused the AAP government of failing to deliver on key promises made in the run-up assembly elections in 2020. Responding to Puri's allegations, AAP Rajya Sabha MP Sanjay Singh demanded that the BJP first address the numerous promises the party allegedly reneged on, including tackling black money, doubling farmers' income, generating 20 million job opportunities and taming inflation.

The parties also continued their extensive poll campaigns on Sunday, particularly making efforts to win over the 1.5 million voters who live in slums in the Capital. Speaking at a slum cluster at Shakur Basti in north Delhi, AAP chief Arvind Kejriwal alleged that the BJP plans to demolish the slums in the city and "hand over the land to builders".

Delhi BJP chief Virendra Sachdeva said that in the last 10 years, Kejriwal has left 50,000 flats of the Rajiv Awas Yojana in areas like Narela to decay but not a single flat has been provided to people living in slums. Speaking at an east Delhi slum, he said every poor person knows that "PM Modi has provided millions of houses in villages and cities".

At the press conference, Puri called the AAP a "factory of liars".