New Delhi, Dec 16 || In the run-up to the Delhi Assembly elections, Chief Minister Atishi on Monday hit out at the night stays by BJP leaders in slums as a “drama” for vote bank politics, a charge denied by the Opposition party.
Addressing the media, Atishi claimed that BJP leaders were distributing dresses and goodies in slums and making lists of voters for deletion from electoral rolls, while Delhi BJP chief Virendra Sachdeva said this is an interaction exercise, especially with the youth, in slum clusters to understand their problems and solutions directly from them.
CM Atishi said, “If there is any well-wisher of slum dwellers in the city it is Arvind Kejriwal, an Indian Revenue Service officer who quit his job and served people while living, spending six months in a slum cluster in Seemapuri.”
“Don’t fall into the trap of BJP leaders, who will visit your slum and later get it demolished,” said CM Atishi, citing the example of Sunder Nursery cluster near Nizamuddin that was razed in 2023 winter soon after BJP leaders went there for interaction with dwellers.
CM Atishi advised slum dwellers to accept the goodies that leaders from other parties gift them but urged them to continue to vote for the AAP.