The AAP on Tuesday hit back at Arun Jaitley for his comments that the people of Delhi were now paying the price for electing the party to power, saying that it exposed the BJP’s “deep frustration” and anti-democratic stance.
Taking a jibe at Mr. Jaitley, senior AAP leader Ashutosh said the man who had lost badly in Amritsar should not bother about Delhi since they will never understand the city.
“The country is suffering from the experiment done by Prime Minister Narendra Modi by making him (Jaitley) the Finance Minister, who lost so badly in Amrtisar,” Mr. Ashutosh said referring to the BJP leader’s defeat by Congress leader Captain Amarinder Singh. The AAP leader said that BJP has failed to understand Delhi and in coming years, it will disappear from the Capital.
“BJP will never understand how Delhi has changed. 67 seats were given (to AAP) by the people and this (comment) is insulting that mandate. The BJP had disappeared in Delhi in 20 years and it won’t be in national Capital for next 20 years,” Mr. Ashutosh added.
At a party function, Mr. Jaitley had said, “The people of Delhi experimented with a new party in the elections, but it is a very costly experiment because governance is not their political agenda.”
AAP said that Mr. Jaitley terming the historic mandate by the people of Delhi as an ‘experiment’ exposed his “deep frustration” and anti-democratic stance. — PTI
Jaitley had said that
the people of Delhi experimented with a new party in the elections, but it turned out to be very costly
