Election 2019

We could not explain to the people why they should vote for us: Kejriwal to party workers

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New Delhi | The AAP was not able to explain to the people why they should vote for them in the Lok Sabha polls, Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Wednesday said in an open letter to party workers, days after his party suffered a crushing defeat in the general elections.

In the letter, Kejriwal lauded his party workers for running a “superb” campaign that was considered to be one of the best in the country.

“The results, however, didn’t meet our expectations. Post-election ground analysis has revealed two major reasons. First, the atmosphere that prevailed in the country rubbed off on Delhi as well. Second, people saw this “big election” as between Modi and Rahul and voted accordingly.

“Whatever be the reason, we were not able to explain to the public why they should vote for us in this big election,” he said.

Kejriwal said on the brighter side, “people have been enthusiastically assuring us that in the small election for Delhi Vidhan Sabha, they will vote in the name of the incredible work we have done in Delhi”.

Kejriwal asserted that the Delhi government has not budged from the “corruption-free mission” that brought this party into existence six and a half years ago.

“Despite unleashing the power of all government agencies on my ministers and me, they couldn’t find even a single ‘naya paisa’ worth of corruption. All the cases filed on our 20 MLAs were dismissed by the courts,” he said.

Referring to the various achievements of his government, Kejriwal said he looks forward to the continued support and commitment of his party workers in the Assembly elections, slated to be held early next year.

The AAP suffered a crushing defeat in the Lok Sabha polls and won just one out of over 40 seats on which it fielded its candidates. All seven of their candidates in Delhi also lost in the Lok Sabha polls.

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Vigilance raids are underway across several properties of two former Tamil Nadu ministers — SP Velu Mani and C Vijayabaskar. 

 

Chennai: Vigilance raids are underway across several properties of two former Tamil Nadu ministers — SP Velu Mani and C Vijayabaskar — for past irregularities in their respective departments.

The Directorate of Vigilance and Anti-Corruption has registered a criminal case against former Tamil Nadu minister presently a member of the state Assembly SP Velu Mani on allegations that he had used the official position in awarding tenders in injudiciously to his closed associated companies. SP Velu Mani was the minister for rural development.

The vigilance authority through a statement said awarding of tenders to his closed associated companies caused a loss to the government exchequer worth around Rs 500 crores.
The tenders were for replacing the existing street lights with led lights in rural areas during the period from 2015 and 2018.

“Based on the FIR searches conducted at 26 places including 10 at Chennai, 9 at Coimbatore and 7 places including Tambaram, Avadi, Trichy and Chengalpattu,” a DVAC official statement said.

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Further, it registered a criminal case against the state’s former health minister C Vijayabaskar in a corruption case of irregularities in the issuance of essentiality certificate in 2020 to Vels Medical College and Hospital against the regulations of the National Medical Commission.

In that context, searches are being conducted at 13 places including five at Chennai, three at Salem and one at Madhurai, Theni, Pudukottai, Thiruvallur and Tambaram, it added.

Besides, premises of Vels Group Chairman Ishari Ganesh, Dr Krishnaraj Dean of Vels Medical College, Dr Balajinathan, former Dean of Govt Mohan Kumaramangalam Medical College are being raided, it added.

(Except for the headline, this story has not been edited by HW News staff and is published from a syndicated feed.) 

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