Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal provoked the political establishment and earned their ire by dubbing 25 influential politicians as “corrupt”, and said his Aam Aadmi Party will field strong candidates against them in the Lok Sabha elections.
Kejriwal virtually launched his Lok Sabha campaign as he released a list of “corrupt” at the meeting of AAP’s national council. “We trusted these parties for 65 years and thought that they will do good to the nation, but they betrayed us. After 65 years, we have an opportunity that a common man will go inside Parliament and talk about his rights.”
The list of politicians he accused of corruption includes UPA ministers Sharad Pawar, P Chidambaram, Kamal Nath, Sushil Kumar Shinde, Veerappa Moily, Praful Patel, Farooq Abdullah, Salman Khurshid, Sriprakash Jaiswal and G K Vasan, former BJP chief Nitin Gadkari and his party colleagues B S Yeddyurappa and Ananth Kumar, chiefs of SP and BSP Mulayam Singh Yadav and Mayawati, and Congress leader and Assam CM Tarun Gogoi.
The Delhi CM also named DMK chief M Karunanidhi’s daughter Kanimozhi as well as his estranged son Alagiri, former Union minister Pawan Bansal, JD(S) leader and former Karnataka CM H D Kumaraswamy, YSR Congress leader Jaganmohan Reddy, Congress MPs Navin Jindal, Suresh Kalmadi, Avatar Singh Bhadana and Anu Tandon, as well as chief of BJP’s youth wing Anurag Thakur.
Arvind Kejriwal spared BJP’s PM candidate Narendra Modi and Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi but accused them of spending “Rs 500 crore on branding” and “image building exercise” that he alleged would be recovered through corruption they will engage in when they come to power. “If they spend Rs 500 crore on image building, how can they given an honest government. They will make public pay back for it when they come to power,” he said.
Congress and BJP retaliated by slamming Kejriwal, while Gadkari said he would sue the AAP leader for defamation if he did not offer an apology within three days. Congress spokesperson Abhishek Singhvi said, “There has to be trust in the constitutional process but the CM has said that he is an anarchist who has no belief in law. Anyone can make a list. You just require a paper and a pen. But to fight corruption we need instruments like Lokpal, whistleblowers’ bill. Just to call a person corrupt and hanging him by the nearest lamppost is not a legal process.” BJP’s spokesperson Sudhanshu Trivedi was equally scathing as he accused of Kejriwal of using “hit-and-run” stunts to grab attention”. Trivedi said, “Instead of acting as an gimmicky agitator, Kejriwal should be displaying the political maturity and responsibility befitting his post. ”
Kejriwal virtually launched his Lok Sabha campaign as he released a list of “corrupt” at the meeting of AAP’s national council. “We trusted these parties for 65 years and thought that they will do good to the nation, but they betrayed us. After 65 years, we have an opportunity that a common man will go inside Parliament and talk about his rights.”
The list of politicians he accused of corruption includes UPA ministers Sharad Pawar, P Chidambaram, Kamal Nath, Sushil Kumar Shinde, Veerappa Moily, Praful Patel, Farooq Abdullah, Salman Khurshid, Sriprakash Jaiswal and G K Vasan, former BJP chief Nitin Gadkari and his party colleagues B S Yeddyurappa and Ananth Kumar, chiefs of SP and BSP Mulayam Singh Yadav and Mayawati, and Congress leader and Assam CM Tarun Gogoi.
The Delhi CM also named DMK chief M Karunanidhi’s daughter Kanimozhi as well as his estranged son Alagiri, former Union minister Pawan Bansal, JD(S) leader and former Karnataka CM H D Kumaraswamy, YSR Congress leader Jaganmohan Reddy, Congress MPs Navin Jindal, Suresh Kalmadi, Avatar Singh Bhadana and Anu Tandon, as well as chief of BJP’s youth wing Anurag Thakur.
Arvind Kejriwal spared BJP’s PM candidate Narendra Modi and Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi but accused them of spending “Rs 500 crore on branding” and “image building exercise” that he alleged would be recovered through corruption they will engage in when they come to power. “If they spend Rs 500 crore on image building, how can they given an honest government. They will make public pay back for it when they come to power,” he said.
Congress and BJP retaliated by slamming Kejriwal, while Gadkari said he would sue the AAP leader for defamation if he did not offer an apology within three days. Congress spokesperson Abhishek Singhvi said, “There has to be trust in the constitutional process but the CM has said that he is an anarchist who has no belief in law. Anyone can make a list. You just require a paper and a pen. But to fight corruption we need instruments like Lokpal, whistleblowers’ bill. Just to call a person corrupt and hanging him by the nearest lamppost is not a legal process.” BJP’s spokesperson Sudhanshu Trivedi was equally scathing as he accused of Kejriwal of using “hit-and-run” stunts to grab attention”. Trivedi said, “Instead of acting as an gimmicky agitator, Kejriwal should be displaying the political maturity and responsibility befitting his post. ”
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