Kejriwal said crimes against women in Delhi had risen sharply last year as compared to 2013 and wondered how BJP could guarantee women's safety when it had ministers like Nihal Chand, who is facing rape charges.
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Senior AAP functionary, H S Phoolka, meanwhile, took on the BJP over the latter's announcement that a special investigation team would go into the 1984 riots cases. A committee headed by retired Supreme Court judge, Justice G P Mathur, had submitted its report to home minister Rajnath Singh last week, recommending a fresh probe through an SIT.
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"Why has the Centre delayed setting-up of the SIT since it came to power eight months back?" asked Phoolka. "All it had to do was accept the recommendation made by the AAP government, which in its cabinet meeting on January 30, 2014 had sought an SIT to probe the cases wrongly closed by Delhi Police. Why this charade of setting up another SIT?"
On women's safety, Kejriwal reeled out numbers. "Against the 1,571 rapes recorded in 2013, there were 2,069 complaints in 2014, when BJP was in power for seven months. Similarly, eve-teasing cases went up from 3,345 to 4,179 in 2014. What sort of message is BJP giving out?" he asked.
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"BJP put up 15,000 CCTV cameras during the US president's visit but has not been able to do that to ensure women's safety. Their ministers say women should produce four to five children, that girls should not wear jeans, carry mobiles or have jobs," he added.
The AAP chief said he did not buy the argument that the rise in number of cases was because it had become easier to report such cases and said that like his government had stopped corruption by creating fear, he would similarly create strong deterrence for crimes against women by installing CCTVs and providing marshals on public transport.
Unlike BJP and Congress, which are focusing on major rallies by senior party leaders, AAP has spread itself across the city. From Sunday till Thursday, Kejriwal will be addressing four to eight events, ranging from big rallies to small nukkad sabhas.
At a rally at Majnu Ka Tila on Sunday, Kejriwal also took on Prime Minister Narendra Modi on his statement that he was a Poorvanchali since he represented Varanasi in Lok Sabha.
The fight over the Poorvanchali vote was evident in Kejriwal's assertion: "AAP has given 11 tickets to Poorvanchalis while BJP has given three. Poorvanchalis feel they have finally been given respect by a party."
On Sunday, AAP organized 25 major jan sabhas, addressed not just by Kejriwal but other senior party members and its star campaigners.
Senior AAP functionary Prashant Bhushan, who had so far being missing from the campaign, addressed a couple of sabhas too. "The idea for the next few days is to ensure maximum visibility for the party. Not only will senior members be addressing multiple meetings, volunteers too will spread across the city and carry out visibility campaigns," said a party member.
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