This Article is From Feb 06, 2015

Delhi Assembly Elections: AAP Questions BJP over Ad on Achievements, Party Hits Back

Delhi Assembly Elections: AAP Questions BJP over Ad on Achievements, Party Hits Back

The advertisements that have triggered the war of words between AAP and BJP.

New Delhi:

A day before it votes, Delhi woke up on Friday to full front page ads in the morning newspapers that detail the Narendra Modi government's achievements at the Centre. The Aam Aadmi Party has cried foul.

The BJP ad, which pitches the party as the best choice to run Delhi, is dominated by a large photograph of Prime Minister Modi. The BJP's presumptive chief minister Kiran Bedi also features in the ad, but it is clear who the BJP is counting on for tomorrow's crucial assembly election.

The hard-to-miss ad is not in violation of Election Commission rules, but the Aam Aadmi Party has questioned those rules.

"The law should change. If widely circulated papers carry such ads then it will certainly influence minds of people," said AAP's Ashutosh.

He also tweeted, "From where BJP gets money to give front page AD in every newspaper. These ADs are most expensive and costly."
 


"The BJP ad gives an impression that Narendra Modi wants to leave the PM seat and become CM of Delhi. The Election Commission should look at all such ads. Especially it should be decided quickly if the BJP ad in which the central government is being praised is against the moral code of conduct or not," said the Congress' Manish Tewari.

The BJP is dismissive. "The ad just talks about the positive agenda of the BJP which the party wants the public to know. There is no violation of any kind. Such ads can be given till the day of polling," said BJP spokesperson GVL Narsimha.

The party has also struck back, accusing the Aam Aadmi Party of seeking votes on communal lines, pointing to a full page ad in some newspapers supporting AAP chief Arvind Kejriwal.

This ad has been issued by the Aggarwal sewa samiti. Mr Kejriwal belongs to the Aggarwal community or "gotra". He had recently accused the BJP of insulting all Agarwals in a cartoon that used the term "upadravi gotra" for him.  

"You cannot ask for votes on the basis of caste...We have raised a lot of questions on AAP because of its double character." Mr Narasimha said.

While the BJP has asked the Election Commission to look into this, the AAP has distanced itself, saying a supporter has issued the ad, not the party.

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