AAP supremo Arvind Kejriwal on Friday accused BJP president JP Nadda of calling people of Purvanchali community ‘Rohingyas and Bangladeshis’ and ‘admitting’ that their names are being deleted from the voter list in Delhi ahead of the assembly elections.
Kejriwal also took a dig at the BJP not announcing its chief ministerial candidate for the Delhi Assembly elections to be held in February, calling it a ‘wedding without a groom’. “They should reveal the names. It is the people’s right to know,” he said at a press conference.
The Delhi BJP president hit back at Kejriwal, alleging that the AAP government was taking decisions against the Purvanchali community and he himself was insulting them. Sachdeva said, “Purvanchali has not forgotten Arvind Kejriwal’s statement of September 30, 2019, in which he had said that people of Bihar come to Delhi with a ticket of Rs 500, get free treatment worth Rs 5 lakh and then go away. “
Kejriwal accused the BJP of hatching a conspiracy to delete the names of Purvanchalis from the voter list in Delhi because they had supported the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) in the elections. He said, “BJP President JP Nadda openly admitted in Parliament to remove the names of Purvanchalis, Rohingyas and Bangladeshis. Purvanchalis are being called Rohingyas. People who came to Delhi from Uttar Pradesh and Bihar and lived there for 30-40 years Those who have settled here, how can they be called Rohingya or Bangladeshi?”
Kejriwal said AAP workers will go door-to-door across Delhi to tell Purvanchalis about the BJP’s “conspiracy” by showing them videos of Nadda’s comments in Parliament. He said AAP’s Rajya Sabha MP from Delhi and the party’s Purvanchali face Sanjay Singh will conduct a foot march and ‘night march’ in the Purvanchali dominated areas of the city to expose the BJP’s ‘sinister conspiracy’.
Sachdeva said that Kejriwal is an expert in changing his stance and statements according to the situation. He said Kejriwal is raising the issue of Purvanchalis because BJP has cornered him for supporting illegal Rohingyas and Bangladeshis in Delhi. He also accused the Kejriwal-led AAP of imposing restrictions on hospitals for people from other states including Uttar Pradesh during the Covid pandemic in June 2020.
He further alleged that everyone including Purvanchalis knows who has banned celebrating Chhath festival on the banks of Yamuna which was not cleaned due to corruption of AAP government. The issue of vote cutting in Delhi was raised by Singh in Parliament earlier this week. Nadda claimed that the names of Bangladeshis and Rohingyas are being removed from the voter list following the procedure laid down in the Constitution and she is winning with their votes. Singh claimed that BJP workers had submitted applications to remove the names of Hindu voters by wrongly describing them as “Rohingyas” and “Bangladeshi infiltrators”.
