Delhi polls: BJP, AAP exposed of dirty politics and ‘gun ki baat’

Aam Aadmi Party is trying to keep the narrative confined to governance and local issues, the BJP is making every effort to raise the temperature with patriotic war cries

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With just 10 days left before voting, politics in Delhi has turned almost as noxious as its air was about a month ago.

While the Aam Aadmi Party is trying to keep the narrative confined to governance and local issues, the BJP is making every effort to raise the temperature with patriotic war cries.

Addressing a public meeting in Delhi's Babarpur area on Republic Day, Union Home Minister Amit Shah urged the people to press the EVM button in the February 8 polls with such force that the "current" was felt in Shaheen Bagh.

"Your vote to the BJP candidate will make Delhi and the country safe and prevent thousands of incidents such as Shaheen Bagh," Amit Shah told the audience.

The same day, he dared Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal to act against the protesters.

Arvind Kejriwal, who had till then avoided commenting on the protest, responded by accusing the BJP of deliberately not getting the road, blocked by the protesters, cleared.

"BJP leaders are indulging in dirty politics. They should go and talk to protesters and get the road cleared," Kejriwal tweeted.

As polls draw near, the BJP has not only trained all its guns on Shaheen Bagh, but also made it dirty with communal war cries.


On Tuesday, BJP MP Parvesh Verma said that if the Shaheen Bagh protests continued, Delhi would face a "Kashmir-like situation" and protesters "can enter homes and rape our sisters and daughters".

At another rally on Monday, Minister of State for Finance Anurag Thakur created a stir, leading the chanting with "desh ke gaddaron ko", and allegedly egged on the audience to complete the slogan each time with "goli maaro sa***n ko".

Congress complained to EC on these remarks by the BJP leader and has demanded action against communal rants of BJP leaders.

The same day, BJP's national secretary Rahul Sinha said in Kolkata that majority of the people sitting in Shaheen Bagh were from Bangladesh and Pakistan.

Senior AAP leader Sanjay Singh took a shot at Shah saying: "Amit Shah has been saying Shaheen Bagh so many times that people wonder if he was country's home minister or a bus conductor."

"AAP is BJP's B-team. Both the parties are indulging in a blame game and war of words. They perhaps see the Congress rising," said Delhi Congress President Subhash Chopra.

"The Congress party is with the women of Shaheen Bagh who have been fighting to secure the future of their children," he added.

While one expected the battle to be fought on issues such as water, electricity, rising prices, pollution, the focus in the last few days has totally gone communal.

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