With just 3 days to go for the Delhi polls, the political blame game is heating up like never before.
Hitting out at Prime Minister Narendra Modi over unemployment, Congress leader Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, speaking at a rally, took a dig at Modi’s “sanyog-prayog” remarks on Shaheen Bagh, asking whether the rise in job losses was a coincidence or his experiment.
“When PM comes to give a speech in front of you, he does not even make a mention of it. Can he tell us whether the job losses was ‘sanyog or prayog’. Can he tell us that in 35 years, the unemployment rate is the highest, ‘ye kya sanyog tha, ya prayog tha unka’? (Was it coincidence, or his experiment),” she said at a joint rally with Rahul Gandhi in Sangam Vihar.
At a poll rally recently, Prime Minister Modi said the protests against the new citizenship law in Shaheen Bagh and other areas are not a coincidence but an “experiment” (“sanyog nahi prayog”) and a political conspiracy to destroy the country’s harmony.
She also attacked Union Home Minister Amit Shah over his remarks that “we (the BJP) will make Delhi like UP”.
“I am the Congress general secretary of UP, let me tell you what he has made of UP. It was a state that had the most potential. What is the state of affairs now, the BJP government, has harassed people,” she alleged.
“Unemployment rate in UP is the highest, every two minutes a woman is raped, every 90 minutes there is a crime against a child, everyday there is an atrocity against 30 Dalits, maximum number of murders are in UP, unemployment is on top while education is languishing at the bottom of priorities,” Priyanka Gandhi said.
Meanwhile, in another development, Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal has challenged the BJP to name its Chief Ministerial candidate, saying he was ready for a debate with anyone.
“Amit Shah says that he would name the Chief Minister candidate once he gets Delhi’s mandate. But the people of Delhi want to know now who would be their Chief Minister if they vote for the BJP. What if Amit Shah names someone uneducated and incompetent? That would be a betrayal of the people of Delhi,” Kejriwal said.
Arvind Kejriwal has repeatedly ridiculed the BJP for its lack of a Chief Ministerial candidate. On New Year, he even took a swipe at the BJP, tweeting a Happy New Year wish to the “7 Chief Minister candidates of Delhi BJP”