BJP chief Nadda slams India bloc leaders

JP Nadda asked “whether Mr. Kejriwal is in jail” and “whether Rahul Gandhi is on bail”.

Jaipur:

Bharatiya Janata Party chief JP Nadda today said the opposition India Bloc is an alliance of dynastic parties with half of its leaders in jail and half on bail.

Mr Nadda made the remarks while addressing an election rally in Jhalawar, Rajasthan. The BJP has nominated Dushyant Singh from Jhalawar-Baran Lok Sabha constituency.

“INDI Alliance is a ‘Bhrastachar Bachao Alliance (Save Corruption Alliance)’. It is a party where the president is from the family, the general secretary is from the family and the ministers are also from the family. These are family parties,” Mr. Nadda said.

He also claimed there was fraud everywhere in Congress.

He asked: “Has Rahul Gandhi been released on bail? Have Sonia Gandhi, Chidambaram, (AAP Rajya Sabha MP) Sanjay Singh been released on bail? Arvind Kejriwal , Is Manish Sisodia in jail?”

“Half of the CBI leaders are in jail and half are on bail,” he said.

Mr. Nadda also praised Prime Minister Narendra Modi, saying the country had made rapid progress under his leadership.

“Today, India’s aspiration is that there should be a corruption-free government. There should be a development-oriented government. The country has made rapid progress under Modi’s leadership,” Mr. Nadda said.

He said that through development beyond imagination, India should become a “developed country”.

The BJP leader also claimed that the situation in the villages has changed under Modi’s leadership. There are 18,000 villages without electricity, but all were electrified after Modi became Prime Minister in 2014.

Mr. Nadda highlighted the development work done by the BJP-led Center and said 3.5 lakh villages were already connected through paved roads. 800 million people received free rations, lifting 250 million people above the poverty line.

He said that under Ayushmann Bharat, 550 million people – about 40 per cent of the total population, including poor people, rickshaw pullers, tea sellers, bus drivers and cleaners – were provided with an annual allowance of 500,000 Critical illness cover of Rs. .

In Rajasthan, the Lok Sabha elections will be held in two phases this month.

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