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Narendra Modi is Robert Vadra of Gujarat, says Arvind Kejriwal at India Today Conclave 2014

By on March 7, 2014

AAP leader and former Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal said the modus operandi of BJP PM nominee and Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi and Congress president Sonia Gandhi’s son-in-law Robert Vadra are similar.

Speaking at the session ‘Dharna, Democracy and Demographies: Making Government Work’ at the 13th India Today Conclave on Friday, Kejriwal said the Modi government has been indulging in illegally acquiring land from farmers for corporate groups like Adanis.

Kejriwal said farmers in Modi land were the worst victims of illegal land acquisition. “If farmers elsewhere in the country come to know their brothers’ plight in Gujarat, no farmer in India will vote for him.”

 

Listing out examples of village after village, Kejriwal tore into Modi’s governance model and said that his three-day tour of Gujarat had laid bare before his eyes all development claims of Modi.

No riots in Gujarat in 10 years. Really?

Tearing into Modi’s claim that no riots have happened in Gujarat in the past decade, Kejriwal said at least 12 big riots have occurred in Gujarat ever since.

The AAP leader said, “Riots do not happen in this country on their own. They are orchestrated.”

Kejriwal said if a single riot case is investigated properly, no other riot will ever happen.

Mukesh Ambani running Gujarat, India

On Modi’s alleged ties with Ambanis, Kejriwal said that he had made a son-in-law of Ambani family a minister in his cabinet.
Listing out the failures of Modi government sector by sector, Kejriwal said, “Modi’s own constituency does not have proper roads, schools and cleanliness.”

Kejriwal said that the country today was not run by PM Manmohan Singh or when the government changes even Modi. He said that Mukesh Ambani was instead running the country.

Gujarat’s criminal minister

He also raised questions on the issue of corrupt ministers in the Modi government and alleged that the chief minister has a bond with Mukesh Ambani.

“Why have you included Babu Bokhiria as a minister who has been convicted in a mining scam and sentenced to three years and is out on bail now?” he asked.

“Whereas another minister Purshottam Solanki, who has been convicted in Rs.450 crore fisheries scam, is also a minister in your Cabinet,” Kejriwal said.

Amitabh Bachchan (R) with AAP chief Arvind Kejiwal.

 

What security model?

Kejriwal said his convoy was attacked three times in his three-day tour. “That speaks volume for Modi’s security model.”
Kejriwal said Gujaratis were living under fear of Modi. He said when he met people, they were interrogated by police soon afterwards.

Kejriwal said, “In Gujarat, the opposition is non-existent. Its members is threatened, coerced into submission or even killed.”
The former Delhi CM said, “Gujarat is run by Adanis and Ambanis and not Modi.”

Am I a Congress agent?

On the accusation that Kejriwal is an agent of Congress, the AAP leader said, “We exposed Robert Vadra. BJP did not despite they having the same set of papers for close to year-and-a-half. We exposed Salman Khurshid. BJP did not. We defeated Sheila Dikshit. The BJP knowingly fielded weak candidates against her for the past 15 years.”

Kejriwal said, “Though the UPA government has harmed this country as much in a decade as the British did in a century, we should not change one evil with another.”

BJP-AAP face-off

Kejriwal said his party workers need not have gone to the BJP headquarters. He admitted that some his party members indulged in violence and apologised for their deeds.

Maintaining that he was upset about this, Kejriwal said, “We do not have a fight with either the BJP or the Congress. We fight for issues and we need to be with people 24×7.”

“The violence was not needed altogether,” he said.

Banning khap panchayat

On khaps, Kejriwal said, “It is not a constitutional entity. It is very much like a kitty run by women.”

“The problem is not khap but their wrongful decisions.”

The solution, he said, should be action against the decision and those who make these.

“If you ban it, they will meet again under some other name,” he added.

Corruption, communalism two sides of a coin

Maintaining that corruption and communalism were two sides of the same coin, Kejriwal said, “One government indulges in scams of all sorts for five years. And then another political player orchestrates a riot to polarise votes. They do nothing and votes are evenly divided.”

Appealing to people to join the AAP, the former Delhi CM said, “Until a few years ago, people of this country had given up hope. After the Anna Hazare movement and the subsequent formation of AAP, that cynicism has come down.”

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4 Comments

  1. narendra kapoor

    March 8, 2014 at 7:37 am

    This meekly looking Kejriwal is a liar of the first order. Why did he SMS to Delhi, stating that he has been arrested by Gujarat Police, when on the contrary he wasn’t ( even on provoking the police ). Then he asks his followers to demonstrate in front of BJP HQs at Ashoka Road, inciting them for all that riot like situation – and then expressing SORRY. Nobody should entertain such a vicious character.

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  2. P.N. Alagarasu

    March 8, 2014 at 3:43 pm

    What this character called Kejriwal bluffs unashamedly. To show his face in front of the TV cameras he throws unsupported unwarranted accusations on Mr. Modi. He wanted to engage Modi into some kind of argument and with the hope that he can tarnish the image of NaMo. All Indians knew what type of a pathologically compulsive liar this man is and he is also sick i9n his mind and may become mad in a few days. He does not follow what he preaches. After taking a private plane to attend the India conclave he unashamedly questions Gujarat’s development under Modi. This fellow could do nothing in his 49 days stint as the CM of Delhi but some rhetoric and get some hapless constables transferred and enacting dharnas on the roads of Delhi. Unless he mends his ways and behave properly the people of Delhi who voted him in the Assembly Polls will reject him lock stock and barrel.

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  3. Ramesh kumar

    March 8, 2014 at 4:18 pm

    Arvind Kejriwal jee is the future of this country.He is being talked about more than any other person or party itself.

    It has never been easy for a person with Indian mind set to accept the change so easily.

    He is being looked at awe not only by penile and senile politicians but also by so called super stars.

    Well done Arvind Sir!!

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  4. Vote4Change

    March 8, 2014 at 4:53 pm

    Agreed Narendra Modi is The Vadra of Gujrat ! but does that make Arvind Kejriwal the Rakhi Sawant of Delhi ?

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