‘Revadi vs khairat vs prasad vs development’: War of words between AAP and BJP over election manifesto for Delhi polls | India News

NEW DELHI: A war of words erupted between the Aam Aadmi Party chief and the Bharatiya Janata Party shortly after the saffron party released its freebie packed manifesto for the upcoming Delhi elections.
With the AAP chief Arvind Kejriwal calling out on Prime Minister Narendra Modi to accept that free handouts are good for development to BJP chief Virendraa Sachdeva explaining the former difference between “revadi and development”, the two parties attacked each other for resorting to appeasement politics.

‘PM Modi should say that freebies prasad by God for country’

Targeting PM Modi, who has warned against “revadi culture” at several occasions, Arvind Kejriwal questioned BJP’s free handout schemes announced in the manifesto.
“…Today, BJP’s national president announced that they too would offer ‘free ki revri’ like Kejriwal did…So, I would like to tell him – Prime Minister should come forward and announce specifically that he agrees with this and he should say that what Modi ji said earlier was wrong,” he said.
“PM Modi said so far that freebies are not good. He should now say that he was wrong and Kejriwal was right. PM Modi should say that freebies are not harmful to the country but ‘prasad’ by God…,” he added.
BJP’s manifesto promises free gas cylinders on Holi and Diwali, Rs 21,000 for pregnant women, Rs 2,500 to every woman every month, among others.
On BJP’s decision to continue with the current welfare schemes, Kejriwal said that the party had openly admitted that Delhi government’s schemes were positively impacting not only the general public but also the families of BJP members.
“BJP has openly accepted that Kejriwal is running many welfare schemes in Delhi which are benefiting the families of BJP members also. We don’t know how to do politics, we know how to work. And we do such work that even our opponents praise it,” he said.

‘Kejriwal, when you speak, it seems you are distributing khairat’

Hitting back at Kejriwal, BJP Delhi chief Virendraa Sachdeva said that when the former CM speaks, it seems he is talking about distributing “khairat (charity)”. At the same time, “when we speak, the PM speaks or our national president speaks, we speak of the overall development of the entire society,” he said.
“A criminal who is out on bail – Arvind Kejriwal would not be able to understand the difference between ‘revadi’ and development, the difference between freebies and empowerment, the difference between freebies and prosperity, the difference between ‘revadi’ and ‘sankalp’,” he said.
“Arvind Kejriwal, when you speak, it seems you are distributing ‘khairat’ and when we speak, the PM speaks or our national president speaks, we speak of the overall development of the entire society..,” he added.