Go to jungle & join naxals, Modi tells Kejriwal

New Delhi: Sounding poll bugle in Delhi, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday wooed voters by making promises like electricity portability and housing for all as he singled out "anarchist" AAP leader Arvind Kejriwal for attack and asked people to punish him for "wasting" one year.

Without naming Kejriwal or his party, Modi said if the AAP leader wants to be an "anarchist" as he has claimed to be, he should go to jungles to join naxals as Delhi cannot have anarchy. Kejriwal, during a protest while being the Chief Minister last year, had said he is an "anarchist".

In his nearly 40-minute address, Modi appealed to the voters to elect BJP which has "mastery in running government" instead of those who have "mastery in dharnas and protests", an apparent reference to Kejriwal and his party. "Can we give the task of cooking to a driver? Driver will drive well. That is why those people who have mastery in sitting on footpaths, blocking roads, doing dharnas everyday, should be given that work.

Our mastery is running a good government. Give us that job," Modi told the gethering. He also suggested that Kejriwal indulges in "lies" and said voters will punish him for that. In an apparent reference to Kejriwal's comment made almost a year back that he was an "anarchist", Modi said, "if somebody is an anarchist, he should go to the jungles and join the naxals. Do not allow Delhi's pride to be affected by anarchy. Delhi will not benefit from it."

Indirectly referring to resignation by the Kejriwal government on February 14 last year after being in power for 49 days, he said, "people should punish those because of whom one year of Delhi was wasted."