Delhi assembly elections 2025: BJP says Delhi will be 'Kejriwal free' on Feb 8

With just a few days left for the high stakes Delhi assembly elections 2025 ruling Aam Admi Party leaders led by its national convenor Arvind Kejriwal and top leaders of Bharatiya Janata Party including Union Home Minister Amit Shah intensified their election campaigning on SundayArvind Kejriwal led AAPs campaign on the plank of welfare schemes and emphasised that his partys model of governance focuses on providing 24hour free electricity to the poor and quality education and medical treatment to the peopleHe accused the Bharatiya Janata Party of giving public money as loans to billionaire friends and claimed that BJP would stop all the facilities being provided to people in Delhi if it comes to powerDrawing a comparison between the BJP model and the welfare model of his party Kejriwal said On one hand there is the BJP model where your money is given as a loan to billionaire friends and it is waived off after 23 years The other is the Aam Aadmi Party model which includes 24hour electricity and free electricity to the poor 24hour free water best and good treatment this is the Aam Aadmi Partys welfare modelThe Bharatiya Janata Party has made it clear in different ways through the words of different leaders that if their government is formed if you press the lotus button all these facilities being provided in Delhi will be stopped because this is against their model he said while addressing a press conference on SundayAddressing a public rally in Jangpura on Sunday Kejriwal warned the people those who want hefty sums of electricity bills can vote for BJPAll those who want zero electricity bill vote for AAP and all those who want hefty sums as electricity bills can vote for BJP BJP has announced that they will end subsidies on electricity once they form governmentThey are against free electricity he saidSenior AAP leader and partys candidate from the Jangpura constituency Manish Sisodia emphasised that the party will put more focus on the peoples governanceIf I become MLA Ill sit with Arvind Kejriwal as a cabinet member and deputy CM Its not only me but the people of Jangpura who will become the deputy CM as just one call from anyone of Jangpura at any govt office will be enough for any work to be done No govt employee will have the courage to not pick the call of someone from the Deputy CMs constituency he claimedMeanwhile the Bharatiya Janata Party also intensified its attacks on Arvind Kejriwal alleging misgovernance broken promises and corruption Home Minister Amit Shah launched a scathing attack on the ruling AAP accusing its tenure of being marked by broken promisesAddressing a public meeting in Narela Shah said Elections would be held on February 5 The people of Narela will cast their vote Counting will take place on February 8 And on February 8 Delhi will be free from Aapda Prime Minister Narendra Modi had called the AAP an aapda The misgovernance of Kejriwal will come to an end on February 8Under Kejriwals governance our Delhi has gone from bad to worse In ten years many states of the country where doubleengine governments were formed reached great heights but Delhi is struggling with waterlogging dirty water and garbage he addedThe Home Minister also alleged that AAP had insulted Purvanchali voters They AAP have not only created chaos but have also insulted our Purvanchalis They say that Purvanchalis are fake voters Kejriwal ji do my brothers and sisters from Bihar Uttar Pradesh and Uttarakhand not have the right to vote in Delhi Shah inquiredBJP leader and candidate from New Delhi seat Parvesh Verma alleged that Kejriwal is distributing money to thousands of paid workers in exchange for votesPeople of AAP are distributing notes of Rs 500 wrapped in calenders in the slum areas Such videos came up from the Gandhi camp a day earlier Police caught and arrested them there An NCR NonCognizable Report has been prepared by the police Cases have been registered against them Verma told ANIThousands of people have been called and they are getting Rs 800 on a daily wage basis to work for the AAP They have not brought the money from their houses Arvind Kejriwal is giving them money to distribute it in exchange for votes to him he addedUnion Minister and former Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan while campaigning for Parvesh Verma said that Delhi will be free from Kejriwal on February 8 Chouhan also heaped praise on the former MP calling Verma the future of Delhi8 February Dilli Kejriwal se free Now free him You have tolerated enough in these 10 years Kapil Mishra is not just a leader of the present he is also the future of Delhi he said at the campaign rallyNotably as the polling date comes closer the campaigning continues to intensify The Aam Aadmi Party is eyeing a third term while the Bharatiya Janata Party which has been out of power in Delhi for close to three decades is leaving no stone unturned to wrest back power from the ruling partyThe Delhi assembly elections 2025 are scheduled on February 5 and the counting of votes is set for February 8 A total of 699 candidates are in contest for the 70 Assembly seats in the National CapitalThe Congress which was in power for 15 consecutive years in Delhi has suffered setbacks in the last two assembly elections and failed to win any seatsIn contrast AAP dominated the 2015 and 2020 assembly elections winning 67 and 62 seats respectively out of a total of 70 seats while BJP secured only three and eight seats in these electionsWith inputs from ANI