Ahmedabad, Mar 7: AAP leader Arvind Kejriwal's convoy was today stopped a few kilometres away from the official residence of Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi, with police asking him to seek an appointment with the BJP's prime ministerial candidate.
Kejriwal had this morning announced that he will go to meet Modi at his residence to discuss the development of Gujarat.
He, along with other BJP leaders drove to Gandhinagar, where the police stopped him and asked him to seek an appointment with Modi.
Later, another AAP leader Manish Sisodia went with police to the chief minister's office to seek an appointment with Modi.
"Going to seek appointment from Modiji...," Sisodia tweeted after going to the CM's office.
"Met the PS, gave him request for appointment. He says Modiji will decide and we will be informed soon," he later tweeted.
After that, Sisodia reached the car in which Kejriwal was sitting and they drove away from Gandhinagar.
Kejriwal is on a four-day tour of Gujarat to 'verify' the development claims of Modi in the state.
Later, Gandhinagar SP Sharad Singhal said, "Kejriwal's car was not stopped, but they stopped here. I took Sisodia along with me to the Chief Minister's office, where he gave a written request. The response from the Chief Minister's office was that they will give a reply to them in two or three days."
Meanwhile, a group of around 150-175 suspected BJP members waved black flags and shouted anti-Kejriwal slogans at the spot where the former Delhi Chief Minister was waiting.
Kejriwal later drove to the airport to go to Jaipur.
After a brief confrontation, the police requested AAP leader Manish Sisodia to accompany them to the chief minister's office for an appointment.
Earlier, raising doubts over BJP's PM candidate Narendra Modi's development credentials, Aam Aadmi Party leader Arvind Kejriwal said on Friday that what he has seen during his Gujarat tour in the last two days is exact opposite of what is being claimed.
"What we saw in Gujarat is very shocking, it is exact opposite of what was being claimed," Arvind Kejriwal said.
The AAP leader was talking to reporters in Ahmedabad.
One of the questions Kejriwal plans to raise is about the ongoing controversy about the KG basin gas price. "I will ask Narendra Modi if he will allow increase in gas prices if he becomes the PM," the former Delhi CM said.
One of the questions Kejriwal plans to raise is about the ongoing controversy about the KG basin gas price. "I will ask Narendra Modi if he will allow increase in gas prices if he becomes the PM," the former Delhi CM said.
Arvind Kejriwal also added that Modi claims that corruption is over in Gujarat but people talk about corruption across the state.
These are some of the questions that Kejriwal would like Modi to answer:
1. Will you allow increase gas prices if you become the Prime Minister?
2. Is it true that the Gujarat government is buying solar energy at Rs 15 per unit without a tender?
3. In your tenure, agriculture has contracted by 1 per cent, how can you claim that it has grown 11 per cent?
4. Why do small businesses keep shutting? Will you concentrate power in the hands of some big industrial houses? What is your development model?
5. You claim to have wiped out corruption in Gujarat, but people talk about corruption across the state. Why do you make this claim?
6. Your Cabinet is full of ministers who have criminal records. Didn't you get one honest man among six crore Gujaratis?
8. Unemployment is very high in Gujarat.
9. You hire educated people and pay less. Why?
10. Your colleges are in bad shape. How can you talk of development?
11. The public health system in Gujarat is in the pits.
12. Your farmers are unhappy with you. Why? Why is your government so strongly against the farmer community in the state?
13. Over 4 lakh farmers have applied for power connections. When they don't have them, how can they get 24-hour power supply?
14. Despite increasing the Narmada dam height, why has not Kutch farmers received their share of water?
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