No tie-up with AAP in Lok Sabha elections: Sheila Dikshit

Addressing workers' conventions at Mehrauli and Badarpur, Ms Dikshit said,'Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal was confusing the people by saying that the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) will have tie-up with the Congress in the forthcoming Lok Sabha elections. Congress Party will contest the Lok Sabha elections on its own and there would be no tie up with AAP.'

'Delhi now want change as the people are tired of the hollow promises of Narendra Modi Government at the Centre and Mr Kejriwal's Government in Delhi,' she said.

She said that in three months’ time the Lok Sabha elections will be held and the Congress party, under the leadership of Rahul Gandhi, will form a Government at the Centre.

She appealed to the voters to elect the Congress candidates in the coming Lok Sabha elections in Delhi for a stable and development-oriented Government at the Centre.

She said that the manner in which the Congress party works, no other party can do for the progress and development of the country.

'Both the Modi and Kejriwal Governments make big promises, but they remain as just promises,' she said.

Dikshit said Kejriwal is now talking about getting full Statehood for Delhi to confuse the people, when he knows very well that only a few months remain for the term of the AAP Government in Delhi, and the new Government can bring a Bill in the House for the full Statehood for Delhi if it wants.

She said that if Mr Kejriwal was serious about full Statehood for Delhi, he should have taken up the issue four years ago, not when the term of his Government was going to end.

She said Kejriwal was raking up the full Statehood issue with an eye on the forthcoming Lok Sabha elections.

'The Kejriwal Government in Delhi has failed on all fronts and was thriving by putting out five to six full page advertisements in newspapers with lies and falsehood, as it was squandering the hard-earned money of the tax payers for self publicity,' she said.

She said that the Kejriwal Government has done nothing for the development of Delhi, as whatever developments that took place in Delhi happened during the 15-year rule of her Congress Government in the Capital.

She said that had the money wasted on advertisements been used for the good of Delhi, many development works could have been carried out in the JJ clusters, resettlement and unauthorised colonies where the poor live.

She said that the Kejriwal Government, from the start, had run away from its responsibility and accountability towards the people.

'Mr Kejriwal and the AAP were creating confusion among the people and spreading lies,' she said.

'It would not be an exaggeration if the Kejriwal Government is described as a Government that survives on lies and falsehood. The truth was that the AAP and the BJP were hand-in-glove and were indulging in shadow boxing to fool the people of Delhi,' she said.

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