BJP top guns out on Delhi election campaign, slam AAP and its 49-day government

New Delhi: It's the last Sunday before Delhi votes on February 7 to elect a new 70-member Assembly. Facing a stiff challenge from the Aam Aadmi Party, the Bharatiya Janata Party top leadership is out in full force on the streets of Delhi.

Just a day after a rally in East Delhi, Prime Minister Narendra Modi will be addressing another one on Sunday in Dwarka. BJP President Amit Shah will be addressing a rally in Jahangirpuri while other heavyweights including Smriti Irani and Arun Jaitley are also likely to hold rallies across the city.

Modi's rally is at the DDA Ground in Dwarka's Sector-14 where Shah will also also address the people before the Prime Minister.

Shah will later address election meetings at G-Block, Jahangirpuri, Main Market West Patel Nagar and Budh Nagar in Inderpuri.

On Sunday Modi addressed a rally at CBD Ground in East Delhi's Karkardooma, Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh held a rally in Tughlaqabad.

Urging the people of Delhi to vote for a BJP government as it can work in tandem with the Centre, Modi accused the Aam Aadmi Party of back stabbing the residents of the national capital

Making an indirect attack on BJP arch rival and AAP chief Arvind Kejriwal, the PM said, "People can make a mistake once, but not again and again. One year back, Delhi people had voted with dreams. Last year, those whom you people voted fir, back stabbed you and shattered your dreams. Delhi won't vote for betrayers."

"Elect a government with whom I can work shoulder to shoulder towards making a positive difference in your lives," Modi said to massive applause by BJP supporters.

"The poors are deprived in India and ours is a government of the poor. We are dedicated wholeheartedly to the poor," he said in a bid to steal AAP's main plank. Talking about Centre's plan to legalise unautharised colonies, the PM promised people that by the time India celebrates 75 years of independence, the government will ensure that all slums are replaced by cemented houses.

Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh also addressed a rally in Tughlaqabad. The minister said the BJP government at the Centre has been responding effectively to cross-border firing by Pakistan unlike the previous UPA government's response.

Singh slammed AAP for "untimely" resignation of Arvind Kejriwal as Chief Minister of Dafter remaining in power for just 49 days.

Asking the people to support BJP, he said a stable government was necessary to ensure good governance in national capital. "Had AAP been in opposition and sat in protest, it would have been acceptable because in a democracy everybody has a right to protest. But being a chief minister, how can one sit on dharna?" Singh said.

Singh appealed to Delhiites to give BJP complete majority and make Kiran Bedi the Chief Minister. "Kiran Bedi is a clean lady", he said.

Talking about the full statehood status for Delhi, BJP chief Amit Shah said it is an sensetive issue it should not be made an election issue and called for a proper debate over it.

Noting that BJP stood united in Delhi behind its chief ministerial candidate Kiran Bedi and there was no internal rift, he said the party would win in a big way touching the two-third majority mark.

He said his party would come out with a vision document in a day or two on Delhi instead of a manifesto and stressed that the performance of the Central government would be only one of the factors in these polls and not the sole factor.

The BJP president listed what he called the "lies" of Kejriwal, saying th AAP used to say that he would not take support of either BJP or Congress, but "whatever happened is known to everyone".