BJP a party of ‘hooligans, crooks and vandals’, says Raghav Chadha
Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) MP Raghav Chadha on Saturday came down heavily on the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) for praising and garlanding eight Yuva Morcha workers who were let out on bail in the case for indulging in vandalism outside Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal’s house.
‘Boycott BJP’
Chadha called the BJP a party of “hooligans, crooks and vandals”. At a press conference, Chadha said: “India can only become an educated and progressive state when the people boycott this party of goons and vandals, the BJP.” The Delhi BJP had praised the eight arrested men as “young revolutionaries” while welcoming their bail.
Chadha also took the opportunity to position AAP as the main opposition to the BJP at the expense of the Congress saying, the BJP fears Arvind Kejriwal the most. “There are two schools of politics today — the Kejriwal school of politics and the BJP school of politics. The Kejriwal school of politics is filled with honest, earnest, hard-working and patriotic people. The BJP school of politics is filled with hooligans, crooks and vandals,” he said.
‘Criminals join BJP’
“In other countries like the US and UK, if someone is a criminal, they go to jail; In India, they join BJP and are welcomed,” he said adding, “In other countries, those who molest women and harass them go to jail; but in India, they join the BJP.”.
Referring to the vandalism at Mr Kejriwal’s residence, NDTV quoted him as saying that “these goons” can break and damage all they want, including the CM’s house, but the “Kejriwal school teaches us to be civilised, dignified and continue to build schools and hospitals and mohalla clinics that benefit all”. The nation needs to “throw out antisocial elements,” he said.
The accused BJP workers in the violence case, who had staged a protest and vandalised the residence of the Chief Minister Kejriwal, had approached the high court after a trial court had dismissed their bail pleas. They were protesting against Kejriwal’s remarks on the film ‘The Kashmir Files’. The BJP has been demanding an apology from Mr Kejriwal.
