Delhi poll campaign draws to a close: AAP, BJP and Congress slug it out over CAA, unemployment, appeasement politics
FirstpostOn the penultimate day of campaigning for the Delhi polls on Wednesday, the AAP, the Congress and the BJP slugged it out over issues ranging from the amended citizenship law, appeasement politics and unemployment. Addressing a press conference, Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal said that if Baisala was even remotely connected to the his party then he should be given a “double punishment”. He said the AAP and the Congress opposed the BJP on issues like Citizenship Amendment Act, Ram temple in Ayodhya, abrogation of provisions of Article 370 due to fear of their “vote bank”. Congress leader Priyanka Gandhi Vadra attacked BJP leaders, saying their character can be defined by the kind of slogans they raise, and claimed that the AAP was copying former Delhi chief minister Sheila Dikshit’s development model. She also accused Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal of being “hungry for publicity”.