AAP supremo Arvind Kejriwal Sunday challenged Prime Minister Narendra Modi to provide free electricity in the 22 BJP-led NDA-ruled states before the Delhi Assembly elections and vowed to campaign for the saffron party if his demand is fulfilled. At the "Janta Ki Adalat" rally, the AAP chief dared the BJP to hold elections in Delhi along with the Jharkhand and Maharashtra polls in November. The Delhi Congress and the BJP, on their part, dubbed the rally a "flop show".
Addressing his second Janta Ki Adalat rally at Chhatrasal Stadium, Mr Kejriwal said that the BJP's "double engine" governments are failing. "Double engine governments mean inflation, corruption and unemployment," he said, adding, "The exit polls show that the BJP's double engine governments will soon collapse in Haryana and Jammu and Kashmir." While Delhi Congress chief Devender Yadav claimed that people skipped tainted Mr Kejriwal’s Janata Ki Adalat for the second time, as they don’t believe in his empty rhetoric any more, the BJP spokesperson Praveen Shankar Kapoor said that the former chief minister of Delhi failed to get public or party cadre support.
During his speech, Mr Kejriwal showed a packet containing six "revris" (sweets) and said that each revri symbolised the six free services -- free electricity, water, bus rides for women, pilgrimage for the elderly, healthcare and education -- provided by the AAP government. The AAP chief announced that the same packets will be distributed to the public and u.
