Will campaign for BJP if free power supplied in NDA-ruled states: Arvind Kejriwal

AAP chief Arvind Kejriwal addressed the 'Janta Ki Adalat' on Sunday and said that he would campaign for the BJP if it provides free electricity in all 22 states ruled by the BJP and its allies before the Delhi Assembly elections.

In Short

• Kejriwal says BJP's 'double engine' government is failing
• Accuses BJP of being 'anti-poor'
• Says BJP's 'double engine' model is 'double loot and corruption'

Aam Aadmi Party chief and former Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal said on Sunday that he would campaign for the BJP if Prime Minister Narendra Modi provides free electricity in the states ruled by the NDA.

Addressing the 'Janta Ki Adalat' in Delhi on Sunday, he said, "I challenge PM Modi to provide free electricity in all the 22 states ruled by the BJP and its allies before the Delhi Assembly elections in February. If he does, I will campaign for the BJP."

Kejriwal said that the BJP's "double engine" governments were failing across the states, and said that they would lose the recently concluded Haryana and Jammu and Kashmir Assembly elections, news agency PTI reported.

He claimed that the "double engine" model was "double loot and double corruption".

Kejriwal further said that the BJP was "anti-poor", and cited examples of the removal of bus marshals and data entry operators as well as the halting of home guards' salaries in Delhi.

(With inputs from PTI)