Yogi, Nadda hit out at AAP during election rallies

Addressing campaign rallies in different parts of Delhi, Yogi Adityanath accused the AAP of stalling development in the Capital city over the last decade while J.P. Nadda told people that Delhi will soon be rid of the corrupt ‘AAP-da’ party

Taking repeated jabs at the ruling Aam Aadmi Party, Bharatiya Janata Party President J.P. Nadda and Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath addressed campaign rallies in various parts of the city on Thursday (January 23, 2025). Mr. Adityanath accused the AAP of stalling development in the Capital city over the last decade while Mr. Nadda told people that Delhi will soon be rid of the corrupt “AAP-da” party.

The BJP president told people that AAP, which was born out of an anti-corruption movement, in the past 10 years has used the opportunity to cross all records of corruptions. “We all remember how former Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal would talk about education, but those who talked about education went to jail after the liquor scam,” he said.

Meanwhile, Mr. Adityanath hit out at the AAP leadership calling them out for the condition of the Yamuna river flowing through Delhi. “As a Chief Minister if I and my Ministers can take a dip in the Sangam [in Prayagraj], then I ask Kejriwal if his Cabinet can also go and take a dip in the Yamuna along with his Ministers.”

Pointing out to the people in attendance at the rally that AAP is “distributing Aadhaar cards to infiltrators”, Mr. Adityanath said “illegal Bangladeshis and Rohingyas are being resettled in Delhi in the Okhla area of Delhi by the AAP”. “U.P. is developing in all directions because BJP has a double engine government there,” he added.

While Mr. Nadda used the rally to talk about alleged scams in the capital, the U.P. CM asked people to bring in a “double engine government” for the better of the city.

He accused the AAP of conducting various scams in all arenas. “As [Union] Health Minister, I am telling you the condition of their Mohalla clinics, where they conducted so many fake tests and committed scams involving fake medicines worth ₹300 crore,” Mr. Nadda added.

“We can see he (Kejriwal) is panicking now, but what about the five years of scam worth ₹500 crore he did related to panic buttons in taxis in the capital. In ration cards, they did scam worth ₹5,400 crore and scams worth ₹4,500 crore were done while buying buses. Kejriwal used to say he would put CCTV cameras, but even that was a scam. And not just that, Kejriwal keeps talking about Muslim brothers, but even in Waqf Board, he did ₹100 crore scam. They have not left anyone,” Mr. Nadda said listing out the “scams” of the AAP, stating that all Mr. Kejriwal did was “lie even after going to jail”.