This story is from April 19, 2017

Rajouri Garden bypoll win just a trailer, says Venkaiah Naidu

Rajouri Garden bypoll win just a trailer, says Venkaiah Naidu
NEW DELHI: With barely a few days left for the civic polls, BJP is leaving no stone unturned to woo voters and has roped in a host of national functionaries to its municipal elections campaign.
On Wednesday night, Union minister for urban development Venkaiah Naidu campaigned for the BJP candidates in south Delhi’s RK Puram Sector 12 and Chhatarpur.
RK Puram, home to a large number of bureaucrats, has a noticeable south Indian population as well.
From songs played by orchestras to movie stars like Ravi Kishan as well as Union ministers, the appeal to voters are now being made in the name of Prime Minister Narendra Modi. “All over the world, people are talking about India due to the leadership and vision of PM Modi. We have consistently won state and local body elections all over the country because of him,” said Naidu.
Terming the Rajouri Garden bypoll verdict as a trailer, Naidu predicted a landslide victory for BJP in the civic polls. “The fact that AAP couldn’t even save its deposit despite having 67 MLAs shows the level of resentment among people.”
The performance of BJP during its 10 years of MCD rule remained characteristically missing from Naidu’s speech. Potshots were taken at both the major opposition parties. Naidu blamed chief minister Kejriwal for becoming “over ambitious” and “running away” from responsibilities in the capital. “You gave an overwhelming mandate to Kejriwal, but what happened? He went to Varanasi, Gujarat, Goa and Punjab and lost everywhere. Now he is asking you to vote for him again,” he said.

Referring to the allegations made in the Shunglu Committee report, the Union minister said that there was no difference between AAP and Congress as far as corruption was concerned. “The central government does not have a single allegation of corruption against it, but these parties (Congress and AAP) have hundreds of such dark spots,” he added.
Addressing the south Indian community, Naidu said that they might have a different language, but were all “a part of one nation with one destiny” and followed it with a message in Tamil which meant to strengthen “Modi’s hand”. The audience also had a considerable number of Poorvanchali voters from surrounding slums and JJ clusters.
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