21-05-2025
Cong, BJP root cause of all problems ailing country: Kejri
New Delhi: AAP national convener Arvind Kejriwal on Tuesday alleged that "mainstream politics" of parties like Congress and BJP for the past 75 years is the root cause of all problems ailing the country, as he tried to reclaim lost ground by projecting the work done his party on education, health and subsidised power as AAP's brand of "alternative politics".
After AAP suffered a drubbing at the hands of BJP in the Delhi assembly polls in Feb that reduced the party in power to a 22 member opposition, Kejriwal's outreach on Tuesday was a clear attempt by AAP to try to re-invent itself.
Kejriwal also accused the "mainstream" political parties for historically engaging in communal politics. "The world is moving towards AI. Meanwhile, these people are busy teaching our children Hindu-Muslim 24x7.
This is the BJP-Congress model of mainstream politics," Kejriwal said.
The former Delhi CM made the launch of AAP's new student wing — Association of Students For Alternative Politics — his platform to push for reviving the party's "alternative politics" pitch as it announced plans of reaching out to the youth and mobilising young voters. AAP's new students wing comes in the backdrop of Chhatra Yuva Sangharsh Samiti — AAP's original student wing launched in 2014 failing to make an impact.
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Kejriwal also attacked the BJP-led dispensation alleging that "it's been barely three months since BJP formed govt in Delhi and it is working towards dismantling the education system in the national capital, built by the AAP during its tenure... For 10 years, the private schools couldn't raise fees. But in just three months of BJP rule in Delhi, all private schools are hiking fees again."
"We ensured 24x7 electricity.
That is alternative politics. But now, with BJP in power, Delhi is facing 3-4 hour-long power cuts again," he alleged.
It is pertinent to point that since the Delhi Polls results, Kejriwal has chosen to stay away from the limelight in Delhi and has been largely focussing on Punjab while leader of opposition in Delhi assembly and Atishi and state convener Saurabh Bharadwaj have been leading the way on countering BJP as the opposition.
In fact Kejriwal's address at the launch of ASAP was the first major outreach in the Capital since he last spoke on March 23 to mark Shaheedi Diwas at the party headquarters. Also an attempt by the party leadership to put up a united front comes in the backdrop of the storm brewing in the Municipal Corporation of Delhi. As many as 15 AAP councillors resigned from the party citing stalled development works and internal discontent to form a new party the Indraprastha Vikas Party.
