TIL Desk/National/Lucknow/ AAP leader Arvind Kejriwal has termed Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s remarks equating ‘bicycle’ with ‘terrorism’ as an attack on the poor, and indicated that his party will go with the anti-BJP camp in case of a hung assembly in Uttar Pradesh.
Addressing his first election rally in capital Lucknow after the assembly poll process began in Uttar Pradesh, Kejriwal said, “Yesterday, I heard the prime minister came (to the state) and said all those who rode cycles in the country were terrorists. This is a ‘chhot’ (attack) on all the poor who ride bicycles”.
Days after a court convicted 49 people for the Ahmedabad serial blasts, Modi had on Sunday said that he had vowed to punish the perpetrators even if they took refuge in hell, and accused the Samajwadi Party (SP) of being sympathetic to such terrorists.
He had also said that he wondered why the terrorists had opted for ‘bicycle’, the SP’s election symbol, to plant bombs in the initial blasts in Ahmedabad. The prime minister is calling all the poor ‘terrorists’, Kejriwal, who is Delhi’s chief minister, said. “All those who ride cycles, when you press the button to vote, tell them whether those riding bicycles or BJP men are terrorists,” he said.
