NEW DELHI: In response to BJP MP Parvesh Verma's letter alleging that mosques were mushrooming on government land and roads in several parts of the city, AAP on Thursday said that they have only made schools, hospitals and colleges which the party considers as "temples of modern India". "The Aam Aadmi Party government has not constructed, and not facilitate the construction of any place of worship, be it a temple, mosque, Gurudwara or Church. We have instead built the temples of modern India — schools, hospitals and colleges," said AAP chief spokesperson Saurabh Bharadwaj.
He also said that the BJP had lost the 2015 Assembly election to the Aam Aadmi Party because the AAP fought the election on issues of education, health, power and water. Since the BJP knows that on these issues, it has nothing to attack AAP on, it has resorted to its pet subject of mandir-masjid. "The BJP should focus on people's issues and explain why the Bihar health crisis has occurred in its regime. Why has Ayushman Bharat failed in Bihar? Why is the BJP government in UP charging four times of what the Delhi government is charging for power? Mr Parvesh Verma should answer these questions first," he said.