Aam Aadmi Party’s national convener and Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Sunday announced 10 guarantees that would be fulfilled if the Indian National Developmental Inclusive Alliance (INDIA) wins the Lok Sabha election and comes to power at the Centre.
Titled “Kejriwal ki 10 Guarantee”, the list includes free 24-hour power supply, good education, free healthcare that is not based on insurance schemes, freedom to the Indian Army to retrieve Indian territory occupied by China, scrapping the Agniveer scheme, fixing MSP on all crops according the Swaminathan Commission report, two crore jobs for the youth, ease of doing business for traders, full Statehood for Delhi, and destroying the BJP’s “washing machine” that gives protection to “corrupt persons” who join the party. “The existing system of the BJP through which it sends honest people to jail will be abolished,” Mr. Kejriwal said while announcing the guarantees.
Mr. Kejriwal said that he had not discussed the 10 guarantees with the other members of the INDIA bloc as he was lodged in Tihar Jail but assured that they would have no objection to the guarantees as these “promises should have already been implemented for the people of India” and would lay the foundation for a “new India”. “I do not want to become Prime Minister of the country. But it is my guarantee that if the INDIA bloc comes to power, I will ensure that these will be implemented on a war footing. Just like my guarantees for Delhi and Punjab have been implemented,” Mr. Kejriwal said.
The Delhi Chief Minister is out on interim bail till June 1 in a money laundering case in connection with the now-scrapped Delhi liquor policy.
Mr. Kejriwal said the INDIA bloc will form the next government and the AAP will be a part of it. He also said people will have to choose between “Modi ki Guarantee” and “Kejriwal ki Guarantee”. “Modi’s guarantees have not been fulfilled but Kejriwal’s guarantees are a brand as they have been fulfilled in Delhi and Punjab where the AAP is in power,” he said.
The AAP also announced that Mr. Kejriwal will campaign for the INDIA bloc in Lucknow on May 15, at Jamshedpur in Jharkhand on May 16, and in Mumbai on May 17.
Delhi BJP chief Virendra Sachdeva, reacting to Mr. Kejriwal’s guarantees said, “Mr. Kejriwal runs a government of lies and does politics of false promises but the people of the country will no longer be misled. No matter how many guarantees he gives, he is only doing it to stay in the news as it is unlikely that his party will win even one seat.”
The BJP also called the guarantees “ridiculous” for a party contesting only 21 Lok Sabha seats across the country to be selling “false dreams”.
Published - May 12, 2024 02:13 pm IST
