Eyeing Madhya Pradesh Assembly elections that are set to be held in 2018 the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) national convener and Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal kick-started his party’s campaign with a massive rally titled ‘Parivartan Rally’ in state capital Bhopal on Tuesday.
In a two-pronged attack, AAP leader Arvind Kejriwal addressing the rally alleged that demonetization decision by Prime Minister Narendra Modi was aimed at helping business houses and castigated Congress, saying the main opposition party lacks courage to take on the PM. “BJP and Congress are like husband and wife. Each after one term of five years gives way for the other to rule," the Delhi Chief Minister said.
He also needled Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi over his claim that he was having foolproof evidence of "personal corruption" by the Prime Minister that can cause an earthquake.
“Demonetization has benefitted businessmen friends of the PM. The move has wrought havoc in the life of common people,” Kejriwal alleged during his 30-minute speech, as he referred to ‘demonetization’ as a “scam worth Rs eight lakh crore.”
“All sections of the society, farmers, poor are facing a lot of hardship and are in penury. Industries, mandis have been closed after demonetization,” he said.
“Demonetization was also done to help the BJP as the party had deposited its money before the scrapping of old currency notes," he added. He said if Modi really wants to end the scourge of corruption and black money, he should put the 648 people, mostly businessmen, who have stashed money in Swiss banks, in the jail. Kejriwal said during his initial stint as Chief Minister, his government in 49 days had put behind bars 32 corrupt officers to end corruption in Delhi.
The AAP state leader also accused the Shivraj Chouhan government that is currently ruling Madhya Pradesh of corruption. Kejriwal tries to enthuse the crowd by saying, “I want to ask the people of Madhya Pradesh have corruption endedIJ” He then infuses humor and says, “BJP and Congress have a husband-wife relationship.”
Kejriwal said that the corruption is increasing in Madhya Pradesh with each passing day and hold both ruling BJP and the opposition Congress for that.
The AAP state leader also accused the Shivraj Chouhan government of corruption and said it had “failed on all counts”. Besides, the Congress has failed as opposition and both of them are looting the state together, he added.
Slamming the BJP government at the centre the AAP supremo said, “The Narendra Modi government of the centre don’t forgive the loans of farmers or poor people, but they forgive the loans of the rich.”
Earlier, women, farmers, traders and laborers felicitated the Delhi Chief Minister and AAP convener Kejriwal.