Delhi Chief Minister and Aam Aadmi Party national convenor Arvind Kejriwal on Saturday predicted that the BJP won’t get more than 220-230 seats in this Lok Sabha elections.
Addressing a gathering at the AAP headquarters in Delhi, Kejriwal claimed that the INDIA bloc will win the Lok Sabha polls.
“In the last 20 hours after release from jail, I talked to poll experts and several people, and got to know the BJP is not going to form the government,” he said.
He said that the BJP’s Lok Sabha seats will decrease in states like Haryana, Rajasthan, Karnataka, Delhi, Bihar, Maharashtra, West Bengal, Jharkhand and Uttar Pradesh. “Their seats won’t increase in any state,” he said.
“It is my analysis and even political analysts are saying that the BJP won’t get more than 220-230 seats. The Modi government is not being formed on June 4,” the Delhi Chief Minister added.
Kejriwal made the comments a day after his release from Tihar jail after the Supreme Court granted him interim bail till June 1 in a money laundering case linked to the alleged Delhi excise policy ‘scam’. He has been asked to surrender by the top court on June 2, a day after the last phase of the seven-phase poll gets over.
On Saturday, Kejriwal launched an all-out attack on Prime Minister Narendra Modi, alleging he was on a “one nation, one leader” mission to impose “dictatorship” by putting all opposition leaders behind bars and “politically finishing off” those in the BJP.
“If they win the election, they won’t leave any BJP leader. They finished LK Advani, Murli Manohar Joshi and Sumitra Mahajan politically. They finished politics of Shivraj Singh Chouhan, who won the Madhya Pradesh polls for them but they did not appoint him chief minister. They also politically finished Vasundhara Raje, Khattar, Raman Singh,” he charged further.
The next in line is Yogi Adityanath, Kejriwal claimed.
“I can give in writing they will change the UP chief minister if they win the Lok Sabha polls. They will finish politics of Yogi Adityanath and also finish him politically,” he alleged.
“This ‘one nation, one leader’ is a dictatorship and only one dictator will remain in the country,” said the AAP national convener.
Kejriwal’s roadshow in South Delhi
Later in the day, Kejriwal held his first roadshow for Lok Sabha election campaign in the South Delhi constituency. He also held his second roadshow in East Delhi’s Krishna Nagar. He was accompanied by his Punjab counterpart Bhagwant Mann.
Standing through the sunroof of a car in Mehrauli, he asserted the BJP will not form the government on June 4 and said if the INDIA bloc comes to power, the direction and fate of the country will change. He further promised that Delhi will get full statehood.
“I need your support. The country never accepted any dictator and people removed them. I have come to seek your support to fight dictatorship,” he said at Mehrauli.