New Delhi: The Aam Aadmi Party Spokesperson Priyanka Kakkar on Tuesday slammed the BJP government, claiming that its policies have burdened the middle class with high taxes while diverting taxpayer money to select industrialists.
Kakkar argued that tax revenue should be used to build essential services like schools, healthcare, and transportation, rather than benefiting a few wealthy individuals.
“I feel like today, there is a fight between two different ideologies in the country. One is, BJP has levied tax on middle-class men over everything, they have broken the middle-class people by making them pay taxes. If you are earning Rs 10 lakhs, you are paying Rs 5 lakhs as taxes. So what should be done with that tax money? Good schools must be constructed, you should get free drinking water, education, health care and bus travel, but the BJP has diverted taxpayers’ money towards a few selected industrialists,” the AAP spokesperson said.
She further stated that on the other side there is Arvind Kejriwal’s model in which there is saving of Rs 25,000 every month.“People get free electricity, free water, women get free rides, senior citizens get free travel to holy places, If AAP wins women would get Rs 2,100 per month, there is ‘Sanjivni scheme’ for elderly. From such schemes people can save upto Rs 25,000 in a month. The election is between these two ideologies. We support tax payers money should be given back to them,” she added.
Earlier reiterating his demands to waive off the loans of farmers and the middle class, Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) national convener Arvind Kejriwal on Tuesday urged Prime Minister Narendra Modi to enact a new law to prohibit the waiver of loans given to rich billionaires.