New Delhi: Launching a blistering attack on the BJP and Congress, Delhi chief minister and Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) national convener Arvind Kejriwal said since Independence, the two parties only focused on filling their coffers and had they done something for the development of the country, then there would have been no need to form AAP.
Addressing a massive roadshow in Chachaura-Binaganj in poll-bound Madhya Pradesh on Wednesday, Kejriwal said, “After independence, there were only two parties (referring to BJP and Congress). The leaders of both parties did nothing except fill their coffers. Had they done something, there would've been no need for us to form the Aam Aadmi Party.”
It is to be noted that CM Kejriwal’s comments comes a few days after he took a swipe at the saffron party and AAP’s I.N.D.I.A bloc ally Congress, saying people want to join his party as it offers hope.
“I can say this with the challenge that Congress and BJP are smaller organisations that the AAP. They are not even the 10th part of the size of Aam Aadmi Party. If they (Congress and BJP) go to any village and ask people to join them, no one would come forward. But when an AAP worker goes to a village and asks people to join them even the children in every house say that they want to join the AAP. Why? Because people have hope in the party,” news agency ANI quoted CM Kejriwal as saying.
CM Kejriwal’s remarks come at a time when SP chief Akhilesh Yadav fumed at the Congress after the breakdown in seat-sharing talks and Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar claimed the grand old party wasn't keen on taking the alliance forward.