India, March 10 -- The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) and the Congress on Sunday said that the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) would not give poor families a free gas cylinder on Holi - just five days away - as it had promised in its pre-poll manifesto. The BJP hit back saying that it was committed to fulfilling all its promises and blamed the AAP for leaving Delhi's budget with a Rs.7,000 crore deficit.

The opposition has targeted the BJP over the latter's free gas cylinder promise just a day after the Delhi government cleared the Rs.2,500 monthly allowance scheme for women with a provision of Rs.5,100 crore - another pre-poll promise of the BJP. Delhi BJP chief Virendra Sachdeva said that the AAP should focus on "unfulfilled promises in Punjab" an...