Unleashing a blistering attack on the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) government in the national capital, BJP president Amit Shah on Saturday exhorted his party workers to reach out to people across Delhi to ensure the BJP’s victory in the upcoming elections to the three Muncipal Corporations of Delhi (MCDs). 

Addressing a mammoth convention of booth-level BJP workers at Ramlila Maidan here, Shah charged that the AAP government led by chief minister Arvind Kejriwal had been unable to fulfil the promises made to the people during the last assembly elections despite having been in power for two years. 

The BJP chief accused the AAP dispensation of being allegedly corrupt, charging that 13 AAP legislators had been found to be involved in various kinds of offences. 

"Various cases of corruption have been reported against AAP MLAs," Shah charged. He said the Delhi Jal Board, Waqf Board, Delhi Commission for Women and other Delhi agencies had been surrounded by corruption charges during the AAP rule in the city. 

He sought to compare it with the BJP-led central government's trackrecord, claiming not a single corruption allegation could be levelled against the nearly three-year-old  Narendra Modi government.   

Shah alleged that the Delhi CM had been spending Delhi's funds elsewhere to boost AAP's electoral prospects outside Delhi, which could not be justified. 

Pointing to a map of India near the dais, he told BJP workers to see the "saffron party" having won from across the country with only Delhi remaining a "white spot" in such a picture. 

Asking BJP activists to make all-out efforts to ensure the BJP’s victory in the 23 April MCDs elections, 

Shah highlighted the point that "This is not just an election for municipal corporations, but it is an opportunity to ensure that the AAP government gets uprooted in the next polls". He said it was Delhi where the Bharatiya Jana Sangh, the BJP's erstwhile avatar, initially came to power to start its growth and become what it is today. 

Showcasing the achievements of the Modi government, the BJP chief also referred to the "surgical strikes" 

carried out inside PoK by Army personnel to destroy terrorist launch pads there. 

A slew of Union ministers ~ including M Venkaiah Naidu, Harsh Vardhan and Vijay Goel ~ and BJP MPs from Delhi were present at the rally. 

Addressing the rally, Mr Naidu came down heavily on the Kejriwal government for its alleged non-cooperation with the Centre, urging BJP workers to strengthen PM Modi's hands by working hard for ensuring the BJP's triumph in the Delhi civic polls. The BJP has been ruling MCDs for 10 years. 

Mr Naidu said, "Development has got speeded up in each city in the country" through various schemes after the BJP came to power at the Centre. "But this city (Delhi) is lagging behind because the AAP government is not ready to develop Delhi in cooperation with the Modi government," he alleged. 

The development projects in the national capital could not be taken up properly unless the Centre, the state government and the municipal corporations cooperate with one another and work together, Mr Naidu said.