lambasting Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal for having failed the people of Delhi in his first year in office, the Delhi unit of Bharatiya Janta Party (BJP) observed it “Black Day”. BJP leaders and workers on Sunday staged a protest against the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) Government and criticised Kejriwal for not keeping his poll promises. The protest was held about 50 metres away from the NDMC Convention Centre, the venue where the Kejriwal Government was celebrating its one year in office.
Waving placards — “Har Roz Naya Bawal, Ek Saal Kejriwal” — the party activists also shouted slogans against the AAP Government. BJP leaders, including Satish Upadhayay, RP Singh, Tarun Chugh, Udit Raj and Maheish Girri, also released black balloons as a mark of protest.
Delhi BJP chief Satish Upadhayay accused the AAP Government of “wasting public money” on advertisements extolling its own achievements. The reality was in sharp contrast to what Kejriwal has been claiming, Upadhyaya added.
leader of Opposition in Delhi Assembly Vijender Gupta alleged people were being deprived of development.
Addressing the gathering leaders charged the Delhi Government for not fulfilling even a single poll promises it made to the people of Delhi. listing the failures of Kejriwal Government, he said the party had assured it would install CCTV cameras across the city but nothing has happened. Even the promise made to women about deployment of marshals has not been fulfilled, they said.
Referring to the raging JNU row, he said this is not a political issue but related to the nation, and Kejriwal should shun playing politics on it, Tarun Chug said.
“You (Kejriwal) should be ashamed for terming the death sentence given to Afzal Guru as ‘killing’. Not only that, you are calling Jawaharlal Nehru University Students Union (JNUSU) president Kanhaiya Kumar and his supporters, who shouted slogans against India on JNU premises, ‘innocent’,” Chug added.