Team News Riveting
New Delhi, January 30
Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav on Thursday cracked INDIA Bloc unity and campaigned for the Aam Aadami Party (AAP) in an apparent snub to the Congress party.
The two prominent alliance of the united opposition bloc have locked horns in the Delhi assembly elections. Congress and AAP are contesting against each other while other allies in a fix to back which party.
In a major setback to Congress, Yadav today campaigned for the AAP party and urged Delhi voters not to “waste” their ballot and defeat the Bharatiya Janata Party by voting for the AAP. Participating in a road show in Delhi’s Kirari with former Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal, Yadav said, “The BJP is going to be swept clean by AAP’s ‘jhadu’ (broom).”
He said, “I appeal to people to come together to defeat the BJP. Your vote should not be wasted, to defeat the BJP, every vote should go to AAP.”
Lauding the AAP government’s work in the fields of education and healthcare, the former Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister said the schemes providing concession of electricity and water bills had brought big relief to the people. He asked, “Do you want to lose these schemes?”
Even BJP leaders are saying now that they will not shut any of AAP’s schemes. They are scared of these schemes, he added. Yadav however refrained from naming the Congress.
