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Hoarding war intensifies between AAP, BJP
New Delhi, Aug 1
The BJP's Delhi unit on
Saturday put up a series of hoardings across the national capital in
which it criticised the Arvind Kejriwal-led government for spending
Rs.526 crore for its advertisement campaign.
In the hoardings,
the Bharatiya Janata Party asked Chief Minister Kejriwal to answer "why
have you wasted Rs.526 crore on publicity when this fund could be
utilised to put up five lakh cameras for women's security".
The
BJP hoardings also said as many as "200 new schools and 50 new colleges
can be opened with this money and people can get 2,000 new buses.
"Five
lakh people can get pension for one year and one lakh youth can get
employment while 1,000 unauthorised colonies can get drinking water with
that amount of money".
The development came after the Aam Aadmi
Party government had installed hoardings asking Prime Minister Narendra
Modi not to intervene in its functioning.
"Pradhanmantri sir,
please! Delhi sarkar ko kam karne dijiye. Delhi sarkar theek kam kar
rahi hai. (Prime minister sir, please let the Delhi government work. The
Delhi government is working fine)," said the AAP's hoardings.
Later, the AAP removed these hoardings to pay homage to former president A.P.J. Abdul Kalam, who passed away earlier this week.
Reacting
to the BJP's hoardings, AAP spokesperson Dilip Pandey told IANS:
"Instead of doing serious politics they are indulging in opportunistic
politics.
"The AAP is already working on the points raised in
their (BJP's) hoardings. For instance we are deploying marshals in buses
for women safety," Pandey said.
"BJP should let us do our work, the public knows what we are doing even if they don't," he added.