Hyderabad:Alleging that the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) is “discredited” for having joined hands with Congress, senior BJP leader and Union Parliamentary Affairs Minister M Venkaiah Naidu on Sunday expressed confidence that his party would win the Delhi Assembly elections comfortably.
“The BJP is confident that it will win Delhi state Assembly elections comfor-tably. The AAP is discre-dited because it has joined hands with Congress, against its own promise of not to align with Congress.
(It) did not take any action against the Congress government of its scams and scandals, including CWG, because it was depending on their support. “At the end of it, they ran away leaving the responsibility and betrayed the people of Delhi.
That being the case, I don’t think people will give them any chance at all,” he told reporters here on the sidelines of an event. Observing that Delhi’s growth is “interlinked” with Centre, he said people of the national capital are “wise enough to understand” it.
Naidu claimed that AAP has lost the prestige it once enjoyed due to factors like several leaders including founding members quitting the party, some of its leaders making controversial statements like favouring plebiscite in Jammu and Kashmir and its founder (Arvind Kejriwal) himself asking people to take money from other parties but vote for AAP. Some AAP MLAs faced allegations in recent times.
The party candidate who won in Delhi Cantonment polls was shown on TV throwing money at people and some AAP members themselves have alleged that distribution of tickets to fight elections was not being done in a democratic manner, Naidu alleged.(PTI)
