Gujarat Assembly Elections: Arvind Kejriwal announces AAP-BTP alliance, challenges BJP

Ahead of the Gujarat Assembly elections due later this year, Aam Aadmi Party national convener Arvind Kejriwal on Sunday said he stands with the tribals of Gujarat and is happy to work with Bharatiya Tribal Party (BTP) founder Chhotu Vasava. Huh. State and improve the lives of the poor. In his first public meeting in Gujarat ahead of the assembly elections, the Delhi Chief Minister said that the ruling BJP and the opposition Congress stood with the rich, Chhotu Vasava, his younger brother and BTP national president Mahesh Vasava and the state’s poor. . people.

“It is ironic that two of our country’s richest people come from Gujarat, and our country’s poorest tribals are also from Gujarat. Dahod, Chhota Udaipur, Aravalli, Dang – there are areas where some of the poorest people live “The BJP and Congress are standing with the rich…they are making the rich richer,” Kejriwal said at the ‘Adivasi Sankalp Maha Sammelan’ jointly organized with BTP at Chanderia village in Bharuch. I am here to tell you Chhotubhai and Maheshbhai that Kejriwal and you, we stand with you, we stand with the poor… give us a chance, we will remove your poverty, educate your children, hospitals for you to make and give you a job.”

Kejriwal thanked two BTP leaders for inviting him to the rally. “We will work together to transform Gujarat,” the AAP leader said. In the 2017 state assembly elections, the BTP had an alliance with the Congress and won two seats. On the occasion of Gujarat’s foundation day on Sunday, Kejriwal also hit out at BJP state president CR Patil and claimed that there could be no greater insult to the people of the state than that the ruling party should appoint a “man from Maharashtra” as its chief. is appointing.

“Who is the Gujarat BJP president? CR Patil. Where does he live? He lives in Maharashtra. BJP did not get a president out of 6.5 crore citizens of Gujarat… Such an insult to the people of Gujarat,” he said. said. The AAP chief also criticized the Gujarat BJP government over the “pathetic” condition of government schools in the state. He claimed that 6,000 schools in Gujarat had been closed by the state government on the pretext of merger, and sought people’s support to improve the condition of schools in the state, as his government in Delhi did.

Kejriwal invited Gujarat Chief Minister Bhupendra Patel to visit schools and hospitals in Delhi and not criticize the AAP government there. Kejriwal said the BJP “failed” to improve the condition of government schools in Gujarat despite being in power for 27 years. “Give them five more years and they will do nothing. Gujarat will not improve. Give us a chance, and if we don’t improve the condition of all schools, throw us out,” he said. The AAP leader also promised free electricity, corruption-free government services, door step delivery of public services and employment generation for the people of Gujarat if voted to power.

“Once break their (BJP’s) ego and vote for AAP,” he said. Kejriwal said that he has heard that BJP wants early elections in Gujarat. “They are scared of AAP…they say if we (AAP) get time till December, they (BJP) will lose Gujarat. They want elections to be held now,” he claimed. Kejriwal also invited Gujarat Congress leaders to join AAP. “Now that the party (Congress) has nothing left, there is no point in voting for it,” he said.

He made a similar appeal to BJP leaders, claiming that “Gujarat is being destroyed under the BJP”. “Think of Gujarat and the country,” he told the gathering.

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