Delhi BJP president Virendra Sachdeva on Sunday launched a scathing attack on the AAP, calling its recent rally for slum dwellers an “utter flop”. He accused former Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal of being a “double-faced leader”, who failed to deliver on its promises made to the poor.

Sachdeva claimed that the rally failed to gather support from slum dwellers. He alleged that the AAP leadership had spent nearly a month spreading “confusion”, but slum dwellers had now rejected the party’s narrative and were demanding answers for the past 10 years of governance.

“The AAP’s rally in the name of slum dwellers completely failed. Anarchic and unconstitutional faces of AAP leaders once again got exposed,” Sachdeva said.

The BJP leader further accused Kejriwal of abandoning the city’s poor during the Covid-induced lockdown. “Kejriwal is a double-faced leader who is shedding crocodile tears in the name of slum dwellers today. Instead of giving protection to slum dwellers during the Covid period, he forced them to return to their villages,” Sachdeva said.

Sachdeva claimed that AAP leaders, including Gopal Rai, incited workers to attack the Prime Minister’s residence. He warned that such politics had no place in civil society.

Reiterating the BJP’s commitment to slum rehabilitation, Sachdeva said the Modi government would continue to resettle slum dwellers through the ‘Jahan Jhuggi Wahan Makan’ campaign. He cited the relocation of families from Kalka Ji, Jailorwala Bagh, Kalandar Colony and Kathputli Colony as examples of the Centre’s commitment to providing “new homes and new lives” to Delhi’s urban poor.