BJP will blame Bedi for defeat in Delhi polls: Kejriwal

A day after the BJP named Kiran Bedi as its chief ministerial candidate and fielded her from Delhi's Krishna Nagar constituency, AAP chief Arvind Kejriwal held a public rally in the assembly segment and said the BJP would blame her for its defeat in the elections next month.

Kejriwal said the Bharatiya Janata Party has already conceded defeat, and Bedi had joined the party to be "trapped".

The former Delhi chief minister said the BJP's sole purpose was to defeat him rather than improving the national capital.

Addressing a boisterous crowd in the east Delhi constituency, he said the BJP and everyone else have united to defeat him.

"When they will lose in the polls, they will say that it was because of Kiran Bedi," the Aam Aadmi Party chief said.

Kejriwal also attacked the BJP-led central government on various fronts, saying the Narendra Modi government had back-tracked on several promises it made before coming to power in 2014.

His rally was preceded by Bedi's visit to Krishna Nagar - which the BJP has not lost since 1993.

In the 2013 polls, BJP's Harsh Vardhan won from here for the fifth time in a row.

Harsh Vardhan was elected to the Lok Sabha in 2014, and is now the union science and technology minister.

Addressing BJP workers, Bedi promised to bring a clean government in the national capital by focusing on every department.

"Every minister and government official will work together. I will bring a clean government in Delhi which would focus on every department," Bedi said.

It was Bedi's first visit to the constituency, where Harsh Vardhan welcomed her along with party workers.