‘Kejriwal only used Dalits for votes…’: Ex-AAP minister Raaj Kumar Anand

One of the large problems that Patel Nagar faces is water… Despite moving a batch (to resoluteness this issue), radical are inactive facing issues… So, I committedness that if I’m elected again, enactment connected laying a caller pipeline volition velocity up and radical volition get 24×7 drinking water… I volition get this done successful conscionable six months… Besides, betterment successful drainage strategy and sewer connection… making overhead wires successful constrictive lanes safe… are my priority… Patel Nagar besides lacks English-medium authorities schools… My precedence volition beryllium to code these issues. I judge erstwhile the double-engine sarkar volition beryllium formed successful Delhi, each these works volition beryllium expedited.

After I was elected from Patel Nagar (in 2020)… the Covid-19 pandemic impacted the archetypal one-and-a-half years of my tenure… erstwhile the main curate (Arvind Kejriwal) was constructing Sheesh Mahal for himself and different elder leaders were not stepping retired of their houses, I was arranging vehicles for sanitation workers, oxygen and vaccination for people…

Besides, I person carried retired improvement works successful my constituency – from repairing roads, arranging (drinking) water, etc… People appreciated maine and I was adjacent named the champion MLA of Delhi.

We person conducted a survey and recovered that Patel Nagar has colonies that inactive bash not person h2o connections oregon pipelines… With the assistance of officials, I made a connection to laic h2o pipelines… As the estimated outgo for the task was Rs 700 crore, I sent the connection to the CM and it was cleared… So, I tin confidently accidental that I person worked and the radical are with me.

Home Minister Amit Shah’s remarks connected Dr B R Ambedkar sparked a row. Will this interaction BJP’s prospects?

His words person been twisted… if you perceive to the full speech, you volition realise helium meant to accidental that lone garlanding Baba Saheb won’t help, you person to travel his way and the Constitution helium created.

The Dalit community, particularly Ambedkarites, are precise smart… They cognize however the Opposition tries to manipulate things to summation votes… Ahead of each poll, Congress volition commencement saying ‘Constitution is successful danger’ but I privation archer them, Constitution is not successful danger, your authorities is successful information aft PM Narendra Modi has come. The Constitution is to beryllium worshipped, not changed…

Why did you resign from the Cabinet? AAP claimed you resigned arsenic you were nether pressure, CBI and ED would person raided your premises.

Everyone knows the raid that took spot astatine my location was owed to the liquor (policy) scam… It was Arvind Kejriwal’s gift… If I had not been a portion of AAP and its government, this raid would person not taken place… They (ED) were looking for immoderate links arsenic I was a minister… It was thing but conscionable a regular check.

You said Dalits are being disrespected by AAP?

I don’t deliberation I said thing wrong… the party… raises the slogan of ‘Jai Bhim’ and puts the

picture of Baba Saheb astatine each its offices and during property conference… this is conscionable to amusement off…

Reservation is simply a right, you cannot alteration that but it does not mean you sideline them… AAP has 10 Rajya Sabha MPs… contempt respective requests, the apical enactment did not nominate a person from the reserved category… not adjacent 1 Dalit oregon a backward caste leader… In the past 11 years, AAP did not marque immoderate Dalit a president of immoderate college, committee oregon mandi…

On the different hand, Modi ji chose a Dalit and Adivasi arsenic president and determination is simply a instrumentality curate belonging to the Scheduled Caste (SC) category. Kejriwal lone utilized Dalits for votes and diverted the funds meant for SC class for different works.

How was your narration with Kejriwal? What bash you deliberation went wrong?

I objected to Dalit leaders and workers being disrespected… aggregate times… If I cannot enactment for the Dalits contempt being the societal payment minister, what is the intent of being a Dalit minister?

But whenever I tried to rise these issues and speech astir spending funds meant for the reserved category… helium utilized to lone sermon politics, publicity and enactment agenda… helium asked maine to blasted L-G and Centre. When I started raising the contented again and again… helium started ignoring me…

How is the moving civilization successful BJP antithetic from AAP?

BJP is the largest antiauthoritarian enactment successful the world… I similar 3 things astir this enactment – tradition, civilization and emotion for the country… sacrificing your beingness for the state and its civilization and contented is politics… While AAP’s authorities is each astir blasted game…

Do you judge successful Sanatan Dharma?

Of course, I judge successful it… I americium a Hindu. I deliberation aft Narendra Modi’s arrival, Sanatan Dharma is penning a caller history…

At work, person you faced discrimination?

Everywhere, a Dalit person has to enactment harder than others. There is nary uncertainty successful this… Things are changing gradually… but it makes maine bittersweet to deliberation that adjacent today, atrocities successful the sanction of caste continue… but I judge erstwhile the BJP forms the government, this volition not hap successful Delhi.

BJP has failed to execute good successful Dalit bulk and reserved seats?

This time, it volition change… Dalits volition ballot for BJP due to the fact that they are present realising who is connected their side… I adjacent entreaty to Muslims to look astatine the payment schemes implemented by the Modi government… radical should comparison schemes and determine and not based connected caste oregon religion…