Guwahati: BJP leader Tajinder Pal Singh Bagga posted a sign equating Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal to Adolf Hitler outside the BJP offices in the nation’s capital on Saturday.
“Kejriwal is the second ruler who converted his city into a gas chamber, Hitler was first,” read the poster.
This follows the third consecutive day that Delhi’s air quality was classified as “severe” on Saturday.
Speaking to ANI, Bagga claimed that while the “people of Delhi are dying,” Kejriwal is engaging in political tourism in Gujarat and Himachal Pradesh, two states that are close to holding elections.
“He is the second leader in history to turn his own state into a gas chamber, therefore I’ve drawn comparisons to Hitler. I’m not saying anything, but according to the Supreme Court, Delhi has been transformed into a gas chamber. Arvind Kejriwal, who refers to himself as the owner of Delhi, deserves credit for it. For the previous 20 days, Kejriwal hasn’t been seen in Delhi; instead, he’s been spotted in Gujarat and Himachal Pradesh. Delhi residents are dying from pollution, yet Kejriwal is travelling for politics, “BJP leader Tajinder Pal Singh Bagga told ANI.
Moreover, he compared the two and said, “Hitler was the lone example of a leader who executed his own people in a gas chamber. The second such individual to do so is Arvind Kejriwal.”
Prior to this, Delhi Lieutenant Governor VK Saxena criticised Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann for the city’s air pollution and demanded that he take “substantive” action to stop stubble burning, claiming that it had turned the capital city “into a gas chamber.”
In a letter to Mann on Thursday, the Delhi LG said that the current circumstance “violates residents’ fundamental rights to health and to life.”
“Request you to undertake urgent and substantive measures to control Parali (stubble) burning in Punjab, which has converted the national capital once again into a gas chamber,” Saxena wrote.
CM Kejriwal previously accepted responsibility for the Punjabi stubble fires.
“The issue of pollution affects all of Northern India, not just Delhi. To rid North India’s entire region of pollution, the Center must move up and take specific actions. North India has an issue with air pollution. The Punjab government, the Delhi government, or AAP are not completely to blame. The moment for assigning blame has passed. Politics shouldn’t be involved with such a delicate subject. I acknowledge that Punjab is burning with stubble,” Kejriwal said.