AAP failed to provide homes promised to slum dwellers, now shifting blame: BJP's Parvesh Verma
The HinduBJP leader Parvesh Verma Monday accused AAP of failing to fulfil its pledge of providing homes to slum dwellers and claimed these people have not got houses despite paying large sums of money to the Delhi government under its housing scheme for them. The BJP candidate who has been fielded against Aam Aadmi Party national convener Arvind Kejriwal in the upcoming Delhi Assembly polls, slammed the former Delhi chief minister for his repeated claims that the saffron party would demolish all slums in the city if it is voted to power. At a press conference, Mr. Verma posed, "I want to ask Kejriwal, who is building his own 'Sheesh Mahal by destroying the homes of the poor, will he not provide homes to these people?” The BJP has been taking jibes at Mr. Kejriwal and his AAP over the renovation of the bungalow once occupied by the former Delhi chief minister and has dubbed it a 'Sheesh Mahal' for the "lavish spending" on it. Mr. Verma also showed documents that purportedly indicated that demolition of slums had been carried out by the AAP-governed Municipal Corporation of Delhi and slammed the party for "not being able" to resolve the issues facing slum dwellers while shifting blame onto the BJP.