New Delhi: A day ahead of assembly elections in Delhi, Prime Minister Narendra Modi, during his reply to the Motion of Thanks to the President’s address in the Lok Sabha on Tuesday (February 4), in an apparent reference to the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP), said that the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-led Union government had not built a “sheesh mahal”, and alleged that some parties had become “aapda” (disaster) to the future of the youth.
In a separate apparent reference to leader of opposition Rahul Gandhi, Modi also accused the opposition of “speaking the language of urban naxals and declaring war against the Indian state”.
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“Earlier, the headlines in newspapers used to be about scams of various lakhs. Ten years have passed, there have been no scams, and crores of rupees have been saved which have been used to serve the public. We have taken various measures to save lakhs of crores but we have not used that money to build a ‘sheesh mahal’. Instead we have used that money to build the nation,” said Modi in the Lok Sabha.
The BJP has in its election campaign and earlier, accused former Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal of misusing public money to turn his official residence into a “sheesh mahal” (glass palace) during his tenure, after having initially said that he would live humbly.
On January 7, the AAP and the BJP tussled over official residences in Delhi as the former agreed to show the chief minister’s residence and demanded that the BJP show Modi’s official residence while referring to it as “Raj Mahal”. In the last leg of the campaign, Congress MP Rahul Gandhi too accused Kejriwal of living in a ‘Sheesh Mahal’.
PM claims AAP is disaster for Delhi’s youth:
While speaking in the Lok Sabha, Modi, without naming AAP, accused opposition parties of becoming “aapda” for the country’s youth – a term used by the BJP in the campaign speeches in the national capital, where it routinely referred to the AAP as “AAPda”.
“We have been working continuously for the future of the youth. But there are a few parties who are deceiving the youth. These parties make fake promises during elections but do not fulfil them. These parties are ‘aapda’ on the future of the youth,” said Modi in the Lok Sabha.
“The way we work has been seen in Haryana. We had promised jobs ‘bina kharchi, bina parchi’. After forming the government in Haryana we have given jobs to the youth. We have won for the third time in Haryana. We have scripted history in Haryana by winning a third term. In Maharashtra too we have secured a historic victory. This has happened with the blessings of the people,” Modi added.
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