AAP releases manifesto for Delhi polls
New Delhi:BJP’s Chief Ministerial candidate Kiran Bedi on Saturday filed a police complaint against AAP’s Kumar Viswas accusing him of making sexist comments against her while her party approached the Election Commission on the issue.
Viswas denied the allegations that he made remarks against Bedi and said he will quit politics if she can prove the same. Bedi alleged that the AAP leader made the “derogatory sexist” remarks against her at a recent election rally.
“What kind of security and dignity can women expect from AAP’s leadership that itself has blatant sexist and perverse mindsets?,” Bedi said in a tweet. Slamming Viswas, Bedi said, “Absolutely derogatory sexist remarks, illegal photoshopped images communicating wrong messaging – it is unethical, toxic, perverse.” Viswas, however, dismissed the allegations and accused Bedi of misleading the people.
“I am surprised that channels are not showing this video. There were cameras of so many channels. There was an Election Commission camera too. “This is the online channel of BJP which when realises that it’s trailing in the campaign starts engaging in spreading such rumours.
It is there routine task to give such abrupt statements and I am challenging Kiran Bedi and BJP that if she can prove these remarks and show a video of mine saying the same things, I will quit politics, else Bedi should quit,” he said. He said whatever remarks he had made were targeted at BJP and not Bedi. “I said BJP people do like this and I have been saying this earlier too.
Suddenly, when they do not have any issue they are spreading such things. This is their typical model of election campaigning,” he said. The AAP leader said BJP was nervous ahead of the polls and that is why so many Union Ministers were deployed to campaign. “Since they do not have any answer on issues of Delhi, they are spreading such rumours and filing FIRs to mislead people.
Kiran Bedi is following the ideology of Amit Shah and wants to prove that she is becoming Rahul Gandhi of BJP. She doesn’t realise what they are making her do,” he said.
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Wooing all sections in a bid to return to power, the AAP on Saturday made a host of promises in its manifesto like 24X7 “affordable” power supply, free Wi-Fi across the city, installation of at least 10 lakh CCTV cameras for women security, making water a legal right and slashing VAT significantly.
Releasing the manifesto, AAP chief Arvind Kejriwal said the document was not just another electoral document but the party’s “Geeta, Bible, Quran and Guru Granth Sahib” which it will implement point-by-point if voted to power.
“We want a Delhi where everyone will be proud of calling himself or herself its resident. Where every class grows equally, irrespective of caste or religion,” Kejriwal said adding the manifesto is a product of four months of “intense research”. Among the significant announce-ments in the manifesto, the party promised to push for Delhi’s statehood and bring down the VAT charges in Delhi to the lowest level among all states and Union Territories within five years.
In order to ensure women security, the party promised to install 10-15 lakh CCTV cameras all over the city along with ensuring a security guard in every bus. “If 15,00O CCTV cameras can be installed for Barack Obama why can’t the same be done for our mothers and sisters? We will install 10-15 lakh CCTV cameras along with putting a security guard in every bus,” the former Chief Minister said.
He said the existing Home Guards will be deployed in this respect and their employment will no longer be contractual. He said free Wi-Fi was a “basic necessity” in today’s times and the party will make sure that every citizen can connect to the Internet wherever they are. The manifesto said the party will not allow FDI in retail in Delhi. The manifesto also reiterates the party’s long-standing promise of slas-hing power tariff by half till the audit of private discoms. “We will slash the power tariff by half. After that we will ensure a rigoro-us audit of the private discoms which have had a free run till now,” Kejriwal said, adding water availability will be made a “legal right”.
In the field of education, the party said apart from oepning 500 new schools and 20 new colleges, it will launch a Higher Education Guarantee Scheme enabling students to avail loan from banks without having the need to furnish any collateral by making the government a guarantor.
The party’s manifesto also promises to create 900 new Primary Health Centres and to increase the number of government hospital beds by 30,000. To ensure “speedy justice” for victims of sexual assault, the party will operationalise 47 fast-track courts, if voted to power. (PTI)