Arvind Kejriwal, the National Convenor of the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP), has stepped up the opposition’s attack on the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), calling them “vote chori” (vote stealing). Kejriwal told reporters on Saturday that the BJP is trying these kinds of tricks because it is “afraid of losing elections.” He said that other parties in the opposition felt the same way.
Kejriwal’s claims are similar to what Rahul Gandhi, the Leader of the Opposition in the Lok Sabha, has alleged regarding “vote theft” in 48 districts. The Election Commission of India (ECI) has always refuted these assertions and called for official affidavits, but the opposition keeps raising them. Rahul Gandhi just ended a “Voter Adhikar Yatra” in Bihar to raise attention to the problem.
The Blame Game in Politics Kejriwal had a busy Saturday with the flood crisis. He wrote on politics and also traveled to Shastri Park in Delhi, which was flooded. He said that the government’s efforts to help people after the floods were bad since people in relief camps didn’t get food, safe drinking water, or protection from “mosquitoes.”
The former Chief Minister of Delhi said that the current government was to blame for the flooding since they didn’t clean out the drains in time. He also asked the Union Government to support North Indian states that had been devastated by floods straight soon. A spokesperson for the Delhi administration claimed that they would send Punjab $5 crore to help with flood assistance. But they haven’t made any official statements yet about Kejriwal’s precise appeal to the Union Government.
There hasn’t been an official response from the BJP to Kejriwal’s direct claim of “vote chori,” but a high-ranking party member has labeled such campaigns a “calculated attempt to create distrust in democratic processes” in the past.