PM Modi afraid of speed at which Aam Aadmi Party is growing: Arvind Kejriwal

Delhi Chief Minister and Aam Aadmi Party chief Arvind Kejriwal on Sunday said that Prime Minister Narendra Modi was “afraid” of AAP’s success and the “speed” at which the party was moving forward.”Today, it (AAP) is the third biggest party in the country in just 11 years, after BJP and Congress. Modi is afraid of this. He is afraid that the speed at which the AAP is going ahead, will move every party out of the picture just like they did in Delhi and Punjab,” he said at an event in Haryana.

Kejriwal, who had been summoned by the Enforcement Directorate in connection with the Delhi excise policy case, also said that his party was a bigger organisation than the ruling BJP or the Congress.He explained this was because people had “hope” from AAP, something that, he claimed, people didn’t have from the BJP or Congress.

Kejriwal further said that when AAP workers visit a village and ask people to join them, they are met with enthusiasm and even children show an interest in joining the party. However, Kejriwal said, this was not the case with the BJP and Congress.

“I can say this with challenge that Congress and BJP are smaller organisations than the AAP. They are not even the 10th part the size of the Aam Aadmi Party… An organisation is formed when people have hopes from that organisation. If the Congress or the BJP go to any village and ask people to join them, no one would come forward. But when an AAP worker goes to a village and asks people to join them, even the children in every house say that they want to join the AAP. Why? People have hope from the AAP,” he said as quoted by news agency ANI.AAP leaders Arvind Kejriwal and Bhagwant Mann were in Haryana’s Rohtak today for an oath-taking ceremony for new Haryana unit office bearers.