Turning the heat up ahead of the Delhi Assembly elections, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday slammed the ruling Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) for failing to provide basic needs such as water to the people of the national Capital while taking a jibe at the party on the money laundering linked excise policy scam, stating that ‘liquor is available but water is not’.

Prime Minister made these remarks during his interaction with the booth level workers in the ‘Mera booth, sabse mazboot’ programme while urging the members of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in the Capital to target winning over 50 per cent booths in the Assembly polls. Assuring a landslide victory in the Assembly polls, he asked booth workers to set two goals- breaking all voting records and ensure that the BJP gets more than 50 per cent at each booth.

He said that the AAP is making new announcements daily because they are getting the new news of defeat every day. “These AAP-da people are now making a new announcement every day. This means that they are getting new news of defeat every day. They are so scared that they have to make a new announcement every morning but now the people of Delhi have understood their game,” he said.

“These days these AAP people are raising slogans that ‘fir aayege, fir aayege (we will come again)’. But the public is replying to them that ‘ye fir khayege, fir khayege (they will eat again, they will eat again)’,” Modi said, attacking the AAP on corruption charges.

Claiming that there is a lot of anger against the AAP government in public, Modi asserted that the common man is saying that ‘We will remove AAP and bring BJP to power’. He also said that the AAP leaders have turned away from their ideology. “This party was formed in the name of Jan Lokpal. But today it is neither in Delhi nor in Punjab nor do they speak in its name. They make excuses in Delhi, but they have a government in Punjab and they are not doing it there either,” he said.

“BJP kept Ram Mandir, Article 370, UCC at the core of its ideology and worked on them with complete honesty. There is only one focal point of our ideology - Nation First,” he added.

He also slammed both the AAP and Congress for not fulfilling their promises to the women. “Lakhs of sisters of Himachal are still waiting for the fulfillment of Congress’ promise. First the sisters of Haryana and then those of Maharashtra too were misled by Congress by making false announcements,” the PM said.

Stating that the AAP is two steps ahead of the Congress, he said, “AAP-da had promised to give Rs 1,000 every month to the sisters of Punjab. It’s been three years but they haven’t given a single penny yet. In Delhi too, it was announced a long time ago that Rs 1,000 will be given to every woman; that money has not been received yet. But now they are announcing an increase in it. This is the first such AAP-da model in the world, which only makes announcements in the air, lies, and deceives.”

He also said that the youth of Delhi are going to vote for BJP-NDA and said that they want a government that increases employment opportunities, makes Delhi a startup hub, and works according to the youth’s aspirations. “Therefore, the first choice of the youth of Delhi is BJP. Delhi’s youth hates AAP and is in a mood to punish them,” he asserted.

“Every booth worker of BJP has to become the voice of the youth of Delhi. Meeting every first time voter of your booth should also be your priority,” he said.

He also added that BJP’s booth workers have a big responsibility to expose them (AAP). “You should take pictures and make videos of every street of your booth where dirty water is flowing, drains are broken, there is heaps of garbage and share those pictures with people along with the location,” he said.

Modi also shared that to ensure the middle class enjoys a comfortable standard of living, the government spends significant amounts of money.

“BJP considers the middle class to be the backbone of the country’s economy. Understanding the aspirations of the middle class, we are creating every modern facility from education to health. But the disaster created by these AAP people has given only troubles and problems to the middle class in Delhi,2 he stated.