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People are looking for change: Kejriwal
Tribune News Service & PTI

Gul Panag will use development funds only on your advice. At present, there are two Chandigarhs -- one is beautiful and the other is neglected. Gul Panag will make the entire city beautiful. — Arvind Kejriwal

Chandigarh, March 30
Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) chief Arvind Kejriwal today lambasted Narendra Modi, claiming that the BJP leader had written to the Centre demanding a three-fold hike in gas prices to help industrialist Mukesh Ambani.

Kejriwal claimed he was in possession of a letter written by Modi to the Centre, asking for such a hike. “The motive behind the hike in the prices of gas by three times was to extend benefit to Ambani”, he said while speaking at a roadshow in the city.

The roadshow, lasting around five hours, was to garner support for AAP candidate Gul Panag.

Kejriwal also said there was nothing like a ‘Modi wave’ in the country and it was a hype generated by media.

He wondered why Modi was contesting from two seats Varanasi and Vadodara if there was a wave in his favour. Kejriwal said Modi was so scared and lacked confidence that he decided to contest on two seats.

“People are angry. They want a change. I’m not here to seek votes. I’m here to ask you to save the country. Only one party is capable of indulging in a clean, non-corrupt politics,” he said.

While speaking during road shows at various locations in the city, Kejriwal said both the Congress and the BJP were identical as these parties were involved in corruption. The successive Congress governments at the Centre had ruined the country. Now the BJP, if came to power, would do the same, he said. AAP is the only party which was raising the issue of corruption. He said both the parties were against farmers. Haryana Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda had acquired the land of innocent farmers and handed it at cheap rates to people like Robert Vadra and Mukesh Ambani. Alleging that these parties were helping businessmen and sidelining the poor, Kejriwal said the Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi and Modi both travelled in the planes provided by Ambanis and Adanis.

On Chandigarh Lok Sabha seat, Modi in his speech in the city yesterday had said “Kirron Kher ko jita kar seat meri jholi mein daal do”. To this, Kejriwal retorted, “Mein seat ko jholi mein nahi dalunga par Gul Panag ko aapki sewa mein laga dunga”.