Mocking Modi's Rs 1.25 lakh crore package for Bihar, Kejriwal said that he had made a number of such promises in the run-up to the Lok Sabha polls, which are yet to be fulfilled and claimed that people who had voted for Modi in huge number are now "disenchanted" with the BJP leader.
"The way he was saying Rs 50,000 crore, Rs 60,000 crore... Was he there to sell Bihar? Was he trying to buy votes of people of Bihar? If you have that much money, go to Jantar Mantar and implement 'One Rank One Pension'. But the intention is not to give but to buy votes. Slowly the trust is going down considering people had high hopes from him.
The chief minister also mocked Modi's pre-poll promise of bringing back blackmoney stashed abroad, saying people were now being made to do Yoga.
"You should have said this while campaigning, then we could see how many votes you could garner."
Kejriwal equated Modi's DNA barbs at Bihar Chief Minister Nithish Kumar, with him being called a 'naxalite' in the run-up to the Delhi Assembly polls and BJP advertisements over his 'gotra', saying a "Delhi pattern" was playing out in Bihar.
"During Delhi polls, they had said that the gotra of Kejriwal is problematic. This was followed by the entire Agrawal community, which otherwise votes for the BJP, turning against Bihar. Many a time you do not need to do anything. They are themselves to work for their defeat. Like the incidents, which had happened during Delhi polls, similar things are happening in Bihar as well," Kejriwal said.
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