Over 150 members of Aam Aadmi Party on Thursday joined BJP at a rally in Shakur Basti attended by Union Minister Smriti Irani over ‘resentment’ against local AAP candidate Satyendra Jain.
The local joint-convener of AAP, Bhuwan Sharma led the breakaway group. later, addressing the rally, Irani wooed the middle class by pushing forth the issues of women security, corruption, education and development while urging voters to elect Kiran Bedi. “People need a Government here which will take care of women and issues of the middle class. And this can only be achieved under the leadership of Kiran Bedi. So vote for progress, employment and education,” Smriti Irani said.
later, at another roadside rally at the Model Town constituency, she struggled to draw crowd as volunteers of the AAP staged a “flash mob” close to where she was adddressing. Canvassing for votes, she urged people to put an end to “instability” and to take Delhi towards the path of development by voting for Bedi.“If you want to put an end to this situation of instability, vote for Bedi. We need Bedi at the state, while Modi is at the Centre,” she said.