Aam Aadmi Party Rajya Sabha MP Raghav Chadha on Wednesday fired salvo at the Bharatiya Janata Party-led Centre over the guarantees it promised during the 2019 Lok Sabha elections. Speaking in the Rajya Sabha, Chadha said that the saffron party made a promise of “new India” in 2019 and before 2024 polls, there should be an analysis of the major promises made by the party. 


“This BJP government came to power promising "acche din" (good days) and they have hardly used this phrase after 2014. Before the 2019 polls, they gave another dream to the people of the country, that we will make a ‘new India’,” Chadha said. 


“Now polls are coming again in 2024 so there should be an analysis of the 25 major promises that they made,” he added. 


“BJP promised that India will be a $5 trillion economy by 2022, but we are miles away from that goal,” said the AAP MP. 






He then cornered the ruling party over its promise to provide bank accounts, accidental insurance, life insurance, pension retirement planning services to every citizen of the country by 2022 claiming the government’s report stated that only 3 out of every 100 people have life insurance. 


The AAP leader claimed that farmers' debt has increased by two times instead of their income as promised by the party and the country has witnessed lowest growth in the last 18 quarters.


Cornering the government on environmental issues, Chadha said that the BJP promised to ban single ban plastic by 2022, but claimed that 14 million tons of plastic was used this year. On pollution, Chadha said that the party promised to bring down the levels of particulate matter 2.5 to 50 but the entire country has become a "gas chamber". 


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The AAP MP said that the saffron party had promised to cut down import on crude oil and gas by 10 per cent but claimed that the imports have "doubled". 


He also targeted the ruling party over BJP's claim to increase the length of national highways to 2 lakh kilometres saying only 1,44,000 kilometres of it was laid till November 30, 2022. 


He also criticised the government over lack of doctors and nurses in the primary and existing healthcare centres.