Arvind Kejriwal On Yogi Adityanath’s Gujarat Attraction

New Delhi:

Aam Aadmi Get together boss Arvind Kejriwal right this moment shared a video of BJP’s star campaigner Yogi Adityanath calling him “a sympathiser of terrorism” throughout a ballot rally in Gujarat, and pitched himself as somebody who stands for “growth” as towards the BJP’s “politics of abuses and hooliganism”.

“If you’d like soiled abuses, hooliganism, corruption, or soiled politics, then vote for them. If you’d like colleges, hospitals, electrical energy, water, roads, then vote for me,” the Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal mentioned in Hindi, retweeting a video which his UP counterpart had captioned: “This specimen from the Aam Aadmi Get together who has come from Delhi is definitely a sympathiser of terrorism.”

अगर गंदी गाली गलौज चाहिए, गुंडागर्दी चाहिए, भ्रष्टाचार चाहिए, गंदी राजनीति चाहिए तो इनको वोट दे देना। अगर स्कूल, अस्पताल, बिजली, पानी, सड़कें चाहिए तो मुझे वोट दे देना। https://t.co/kNtrOR2azB

— Arvind Kejriwal (@ArvindKejriwal) November 26, 2022

The AAP, buoyed by its victory early this yr in Punjab, has mounted a high-decibel marketing campaign to problem the BJP in Gujarat the place it has been in energy for 27 years, together with PM Narendra Modi’s 13 years as chief minister. Pitching a former TV information anchor Isudan Gadhvi, because the AAP chief ministerial candidate, Mr Kejriwal has spent weeks in Gujarat talking of “growth” in addition to making appeals to the BJP’s core Hindutva voter with calls for akin to Hindu gods’ pictures on  foreign money notes. 

The Congress, which elevated its vote share in 2017, has been working a lowkey marketing campaign — it calls {that a} technique. It refuses to see the election as a three-way contest, dismissing AAP as “simply hype”. The BJP, too, sees the competition as a direct combat with the Congress.

But, the BJP has gone all-out and deployed its large weapons, together with the hardline Hindutva icon Yogi Adityanath, within the marketing campaign. And the marketing campaign has taken a flip in the direction of the BJP’s primal enchantment, with Amit Shah saying “rioters have been taught a lesson in 2002”, and Yogi Adityanath, too, calling rivals “opponents of Lord Ram”. 

Within the video that Mr Kejriwal shared, Yogi Adityanath mentioned that the AAP chief had “opposed the development of Ram Temple, and even sought proof for the Indian Military’s surgical strike in Pakistan”. He mentioned corruption and terrorism are “the identical factor”.