NEW DELHI, Jan 20: Dubbing the AAP a party of “algavwad”, “atankwad” and “afwah”, BJP leader Anurag Thakur on Monday accused it of supporting separatists and raised questions on the spate of hoax bomb threats to schools in Delhi.
Hitting back at the BJP, Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) spokesperson Priyanka Kakkar claimed that the saffron party has no vision, agenda or chief ministerial face for Delhi.
At a press conference here, Thakur said the Congress and AAP appear different outwardly but are the same inside.
“The AAP came to power talking about the corruption of the Congress. But now, the ‘A’ in AAP is also known for ‘arajakta’ (anarchy), ‘algavwad’ (separatism), ‘atankwad’ (terorrism), ‘afwah’ (rumours) and ‘apradhi’ (criminals),” he said.
The former Union minister said the Congress and AAP were seen joining hands on the issues of Parliament attack convict Afzal Guru’s hanging and the Army’s surgical strikes on terror launchpads in Pakistan.
When the entire country was waiting for Guru’s hanging, some people were trying for a presidential pardon for him, Thakur said.
He, however, did not take any names.
“Whose NGO came forward to get Afzal Guru’s death sentence commuted? Whose relatives, parents were part of it? Will (Delhi Chief Minister) Atishi and (Arvind) Kejriwal say something or keep mum?” he asked.
Thakur went on to ask which politicians stayed at the homes of “terrorist sympathisers” during the Punjab Assembly polls. He claimed that there were political parties that supported separatists and terrorists, and also received donations from them.
There are some who spread rumours of bomb blasts and put the parents of school children in Delhi under distress, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader said.
Addressing Atishi and Kejriwal, he asked, “Who are connected to those spreading bomb-blast rumours? Atishiji, Kejriwalji, will you respond?” Kejriwal and the AAP are “old players” at creating “anarchy and sensation”, he alleged.
The Delhi Police recently claimed that a Class-12 student had sent the hoax bomb threats to more than 400 city schools and his parents were linked to an NGO that supported a political party. The police, however, did not reveal the name of the party.
Delhi BJP president Virendra Sachdeva, who also addressed the press conference, said everybody knows about the NGO’s connections. The AAP’s “sleeper cell”, he said, has been trying to spoil the social harmony and peace in Delhi ahead of the February 5 Assembly polls.
He also asked why the hoax calls were received by only private schools and who gave the data of the schools to the juvenile accused.
Reacting to the allegations, Kakkar claimed that the BJP is panicking as it is facing a leadership drought in Delhi.
“They (BJP leaders) proudly claim that their plan is to hurl abuses at Arvind Kejriwal. Will abusing Arvind Kejriwal solve Delhi’s problems?” the AAP leader was quoted as asking in a statement.
The AAP is going to people asking for votes, listing what its government has done in Delhi in the last 10 years and explaining its future plan, but the BJP has no achievements to show to the voters of the national capital, she said.
The ruling AAP and opposition BJP have sharpened their attacks on each another ahead of the Delhi polls, the results of which will be declared on February 8. (PTI)
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