First Sheesh Mahal, Now Rs 2,026 Crore Liquor Rip-off Loss: BJP Banks On ‘Corruption’ Plank in Delhi Elections – News18
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The BJP is making an attempt to repeat within the Delhi meeting elections in opposition to AAP what it efficiently did in opposition to the Congress within the 2014 Lok Sabha elections — that the incumbent authorities is rocked by corruption scams
With ‘Sheesh Mahal’ and liquor rip-off, AAP battles a number of corruption expenses in Delhi elections.
After the Sheesh Mahal problem, the BJP’s arsenal in opposition to the Aam Aadmi Celebration (AAP) within the Delhi election marketing campaign on the difficulty of corruption has obtained one other enhance with a C&AG report pegging the loss attributable to the Delhi liquor rip-off at Rs 2,026 crore.
The BJP is making corruption and the dearth of probity in public life the centerpiece of its ballot marketing campaign this time, sensing the AAP is on a weak floor on the identical.
This makes the 2025 Delhi election very completely different from the 2020 or the 2015 elections within the nationwide capital. Then, AAP had cashed in on its picture of being a ‘Kattar Imaandaar’ (trustworthy) get together and its chief Arvind Kejriwal engaged on the precept of ‘easy dwelling and excessive pondering’.
The liquor rip-off and Sheesh Mahal controversy is questioning each these USPs of AAP. Prime Minister Narendra Modi can also be stated to have requested BJP leaders to ‘expose’ AAP and Kejriwal on the difficulty of corruption in Delhi and make extra efforts on this regard. BJP chief Anurag Thakur has stated there can be no different get together whose eight ministers, varied MLAs, and the then chief minister and deputy chief minister needed to go to jail.
In some ways, the BJP is making an attempt to repeat within the Delhi meeting elections in opposition to AAP what it efficiently did in opposition to the Congress within the 2014 Lok Sabha elections — that the incumbent authorities is rocked by corruption scams and folks ought to vote on this problem.
This technique is also to take the main target away from AAP’s freebies which have labored for Kejriwal’s get together within the final two elections. The prime minister has assured Delhi’s voters that no present schemes operating in public curiosity can be stopped if BJP involves energy.
Prime BJP leaders really feel the sheen of Kejriwal is gone this time, with critical expenses of corruption and scams in opposition to him, on account of which Kejriwal and senior AAP leaders like Manish Sisodia needed to go to jail.
To double down on this problem, the get together first raised the ‘Sheesh Mahal’ problem, pointing to a C&AG report that pegged the renovation value of the chief minister’s residence at Rs 33.6 crore.
Now, the brand new revelations in regards to the financial loss attributable to the liquor rip-off are giving the BJP extra ammunition in opposition to AAP. Bear in mind, this is identical case by which prime AAP leaders have been jailed. Whereas Kejriwal and Sisodia at all times claimed that not even a single penny was recovered concerning the alleged rip-off, the C&AG report is — for the primary time — placing a determine to the stated rip-off at Rs 2,026 crore.
One can count on prime BJP leaders led by PM Modi to lift this ‘loss determine of Rs 2026 crore’ strongly through the Delhi election marketing campaign that begins in full circulate this week.
BJP president JP Nadda has termed this the ‘AAP-DA’ [catastrophe] mannequin of loot in full show and claimed that it’s only a matter of some weeks earlier than AAP is voted out and punished for his or her misdeeds.
The Aam Aadmi Celebration’s technique appears to be terming the C&AG reviews as a BJP ploy throughout elections and the get together is taking part in them down, claiming their prime leaders have been jailed beneath false expenses. The bail granted to Kejriwal or Sisodia have been celebrated by the AAP as huge victories.
However the BJP right here is making an attempt to inform the voters that popping out on bail doesn’t imply any clear chit and the court docket trial will go on. It’s reminding voters that each C&AG reviews, into Sheesh Mahal and the liquor rip-off, are proof that AAP leaders should not above board.
