Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) on Thursday condemned BJP for ‘opposing’ its move to provide free Wi-Fi and other welfare schemes. Accusing the BJP of doing ‘negative politics’, AAP national spokesperson Raghav Chadha said the BJP is opposing every welfare scheme of the AAP Government through negative campaigns because they are scared of succumbing in the upcoming Vidhan Sabha election.

Chadha claimed that the Delhi Government has fulfilled all its 70 promises it made before 2015 Assembly polls.

“Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal has fulfilled the last promise of the AAP manifesto by announcing the free Wi-Fi scheme. “Kejriwal is the only CM of the country who has fulfilled all the promises made in party manifesto,” he said, adding that the AAP will expose BJP’s negative politics, anti-people mindset and anti-people political statements.

Talking about AAP governance model, Raghav said ,”We do not believe in such a politics as welfare schemes are meant for people. There are two models of governance in front of people - one is the BJP’s model of governance and the second one is AAP’s model of governance.  In BJP’s model of governance, onion price is skyrocketing, mobile data price is increasing, price of essential items is increasing and the metro fare has already increased and in AAP’s model of governance citizens get free electricity, free water, free Wi-Fi and free travel for women in buses”.

He also said that just after the announcement by the Delhi Chief Minister, the BJP started opposing the free Wi-Fi scheme and the AAP condemns such anti-people politics.

“BJP MP Vijay Goel and Gautam Gambhir criticised the free Wi-Fi scheme and on behalf of the AAP I want to ask five questions to all the seven BJP Lok Sabha MPs from Delhi and BJP’s Rajaya Sabha MP Vijay Goel,” he added.

“Why is the BJP opposing a welfare scheme like free Wi-Fi of the Arvind Kejriwal Government? When the AAP Government is fulfilling the dream of making Delhi a smart city by providing free Wi-Fi then why is the BJP opposing such step? Significantly, the BJP itself always talks about making 100 smart cities in India which they have not fulfilled yet,” he asked?

Chadha also asked “Is the BJP trying to promote the orthodox and non-progressive ideas of the RSS which says women should not wear jeans or use mobile phones by opposing free Wi-Fi scheme,”? “Does the BJP want the youth and the poor people of Delhi should not progress and lag in their life by using new-age technology like Wi-Fi? Is the BJP frightened of people getting correct information by using free Wi-Fi because this way people will not believe the propaganda, misinformation and fake news of BJP,” he asked?

Senior AAP leader and national spokesperson Atishi said, “I am saddened to see that the BJP MPs are opposing a progressive and new age technology like Wi-Fi,”

 “BJP is a non-progressive political party and affected by the old school thoughts, therefore, they are not accepting a progressive idea like free Wi-Fi. In the past five-years Delhi is the only state which has maintained over 8 per cent GDP whereas under the BJP the Indian economy has reached a new low.