New Delhi: The Aam Aadmi Party and the Bharatiya Janata Party are at loggerheads after Delhi’s tableau has been excluded from the Republic Day parade in the national capital, Scroll reported.
Aam Aadmi Party chief Arvind Kejriwal on Sunday questioned the exclusion asking ‘Why do they hate the people of Delhi so much? Why should the people of Delhi vote for them?’
The annual Republic Day parade at Kartavya Path, formerly Rajpath, features procession of tableau from certain states.
A committee of defence ministry chooses which states can present their tableaux.
Arvind Kejriwal urged that Delhi, citing the place being the national capital, should be included in the procession every year.
The wrangling between the AAP and the BJP comes ahead of the Assembly polls due in February.
The former Delhi chief minister accused the Union government of having ‘no vision for the people’ of Delhi.
Tableaux of Delhi and Punjab, both ruled by AAP, were excluded previously in January 2024 parade.
Accusing Kejriwal of ‘anarchist behaviour’, Delhi BJP chief Virendra Sachdeva asked him what AAP government wanted to showcase in the parade.
Sachdeva added that ‘We have not forgotten the Republic Day of 2014 when Arvind Kejriwal staged a protest’.
He asked Kejriwal if he wanted to show the national capital’s broken roads, overflowing sewer where more than 60 people died or the Sheeshmahal’ that he ‘built by looting people’s money’.
The BJP leader accused Kejriwal of doing ‘politics’ in the case of tableau too, which he said is decided by a committee.