Arvind Kejriwal – ‘Haryana ka chhora’ – fights for remote control
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AAP aims to emerge third pole in Haryana politics
By Manish Anand
New Delhi, September 24: The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) is sanguine to make a splash in the Haryana politics. The AAP supremo Arvind Kejriwal has hit the campaign trails in Haryana.
Kejriwal is drawing strong crowds in his roadshows in Haryana. His common theme in speeches is that of him being a ‘Haryana ka chhora (boy from Haryana)’.
“Can anyone break any ‘Haryana ko chhora’? Modi and Shah wanted to break me. But they failed,” Kejriwal tells the crowd sporting yellow flags of the AAP. The AAP supremo builds an image that he withstood the “brute power of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Union Minister for Home Affairs Amit Shah”.
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“I looked straight into their eyes. They wanted me to face them with downcast eyes,” Kejriwal tells crowds with joyous clapping.
Until he came out of the Tihar Jail, the AAP was hopeful of the party adjusted by the Congress in a seat adjustment pact for the Haryana Assembly elections. But Bhupinder Singh Hooda, former state chief minister and a poll veteran, stood his grounds.
Hooda was apparently aware of the fate of the Congress in Delhi. After the Congress gave first lifeline to the AAP in Delhi, the Kejriwal-led outfit send the grand old party into oblivion in the national capital.
“There are only two states in the country where electricity is free. They are Delhi and Punjab. We will make electricity free in Haryana also,” Kejriwal asserts in his poll punchline.
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But he hastens to add that the AAP may not come to power in Haryana after this election. “You have to give us the remote control of Haryana. No government in Haryana should be formed without our support. We will ensure from the new government that electricity becomes free in Haryana,” adds Kejriwal.
Haryana has a total of 90 Assembly seats. Until the ‘Ayaram and gayaram’ politics of the 1990s, the Haryana politics has seen political stability in the last 20 years.
Yet, the incumbent Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) formed government in 2019 after securing a post-poll alliance with the Jannayak Janata Party (JJP) of Dushyant Chautala. A few months ago, the BJP engineered defections from the ranks of the JJP to stay in power without the support of Chautala-led outfit.
The AAP leader and the Rajya Sabha MP, Sanjay Singh, is another key campaigner of his party. Singh is stoking anti-BJP rhetoric in Haryana.
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“The BJP stole the watch (election symbol) of Sharad Pawar. The BJP stole bow and arrow (election symbol) of the Shiv Sena. The BJP wanted to steal broom (election symbol) of the AAP in Delhi,” Singh is saying in all his public meetings.
With Kejriwal and Singh leading poll campaign, the AAP is aiming to partake the anti-incumbency vote base in Haryana. The AAP is also hopeful that the internal squabbling within the Congress offer space for the party to aim for a remote control.
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