“Debating with him (kejriwal) is just a tamasha and I don’t believe in it,” said Bedi in an interview to a TV channel.
Throwing the challenge to Bedi, Kejriwal said such a debate will be a “good initiative” as people will know about plans and policies of the two main parties for the city which will help them in understanding various issues.
65-year-old Bedi, who had joined BJP last week and was named its chief ministerial nominee last night, said she “accepted” the challenge but will only debate with him on the floor of Delhi Assembly and not during the campaign.
“It will be a good initiative for democracy if there is a debate between us on different issues. People vote in the name of religion and caste. They are not aware of the issues. The debate of around 1-2 hours should be on concrete issues,” Kejriwal said earlier on Tuesday while embarking on his roadshow.
Bedi retorted saying, “They are into drama while I am focused on work.”
“I accept the challenge. I will do it in the Assembly and before that I am focusing on delivery rather than on debates because that’s what he’s been doing. He’s only been debating. What I am doing is delivery of goals, services, programmes,” she said.
Kejriwal put off till tomorrow filing of his nomination papers.
As the war of words continued, Kejriwal scoffed at her response, saying people want to know how political parties will deal with pressing issues confronting them before casting their votes, not after the elections.
“People want to know whether BJP will reduce power and water tariff, and how it will bring down prices of essential items, how it will put an end to bribery and corruption” he said.
The former Delhi Chief Minister also took a dig at BJP over the protests at the party’s state office saying while AAP is a ray of hope, the fights in BJP show “no sign of abating”.
“BJP has won in Maharashtra, Haryana, Jharkhand but the party is choking after coming to Delhi. On one hand AAP is a ray of hope, on the other we get news that workers outside BJP office are fighting over ticket distribution,” Kejriwal said.
An unfazed Kejriwal also reiterated his controversial remarks asking voters to accept money being offered by Congress and BJP on a day he was was slapped with a show cause notice on the issue by the Election Commission.
“If I would have asked people to accept the money and even to vote for those parties then they would have been very happy. Their problem lie in the fact that I am saying accept money from all the parties but vote for AAP,” he said.
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