Kejriwal calls on workers to win every seat in Delhi at a lengthy AAP meeting
News Mania / Piyal Chatterjee / 20th October 2024
Arvind Kejriwal, the former chief minister of Delhi, praised the “resilience” of AAP leaders and activists and urged them to step up their efforts to win all 70 seats in the assembly elections that are scheduled for early next year, claiming that no party in Indian history has been persecuted as much as the Aam Aadmi Party. Speaking to a group of the party’s Mandal-level office bearers in Pitampura, Delhi, on Saturday, the AAP’s National Convenor made this statement.
Kejriwal was upbeat about the AAP’s chances of winning a bigger mandate than in the last elections during the event. He demanded that there be no tolerance for internal strife inside the party. CM Atishi, Rajya Sabha MPs Sandeep Pathak and Sanjay Singh, AAP Delhi convenor Gopal Rai, top AAP leaders and former ministers Manish Sisodia, Satyendar Jain, and ‘Sangathan Mantris’ were also present at the occasion. After being granted bail yesterday, Satyendar Jain visited all of the workers for the first time, and the partymen gave him a hero’s welcome. He spent about two years in prison for allegedly “money laundering” through several companies connected to him.
He drew parallels between the next assembly election and India’s freedom struggle, invoking the names of Bhagat Singh, Rajguru, Sukhdev, and Subhas Chandra Bose. “If Bhagat Singh had worked part-time, if Rajguru, Sukhdev, Ashfaqulla Khan had worked part-time, if Subhas Chandra Bose, Babasaheb Ambedkar, or Gandhiji had given only half a day to this, our country wouldn’t have gained independence. This is the second fight for freedom.” ” And in this second fight for freedom, I am proud that our people have gone to jail and come out. I am not worried about whether we come into power or not. My concern is, if we don’t win, what will happen to these schools?”
Kejriwal accused the BJP of attempting to sabotage the progress made in Delhi over the past decade through “orchestrated disruptions”, including legal actions against key AAP leaders and “administrative roadblocks” by the Lieutenant Governor’s office.
“When they put all of us–me, Satyendar Jain, Manish Sisodia, Sanjay Singh, Vijay Nair, Vibhav, and others–in jail, their aim was to break the party. But the party remained united, and the biggest reason for that is all of you–our workers, our Mandal Prabharis, our Vidhan Sabha in-charges, our MLAs, and all the office bearers of our party. You all are responsible for the party standing so strong today,” he said.
He asserted that the BJP sought to destroy all of the AAP’s accomplishments over the previous five years since their 22-state administration was being “questioned.”He also denounced the BJP’s “divisive politics,” claiming that they violate the interests of the country.
He claimed that,”For the first time, a party has set an example of governance in the form of AAP. What we have accomplished in education, healthcare, electricity, water, bus travel, teerth, pensions, roads–no other party has done this in the history of India.” Someone asked me, “Arvind, what will happen to you if you don’t win the election?” I said, That’s not the question. The question is, what will happen to you? What will happen to your family if the Aam Aadmi Party doesn’t win? If we don’t win, electricity rates will increase again. If the Aam Aadmi Party doesn’t come to power, we’ll have to fast again because electricity rates will rise again. Your roads will break again. Your water will become impure again. Your water bills will skyrocket. Delhi used to experience eight-hour power cuts,” he claimed
“In 22 states where the BJP is in power, not a single state has 24-hour electricity. Ask Uttar Pradesh, go to nearby Ghaziabad–do they get 24-hour electricity? No. But Delhi does. So, Delhi will return to the same situation. This election is about saving Delhi,” the AAP convenor said.
Delhi Chief Minister Atishi also said that the BJP tried to destroy the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) by arresting its leaders like Satyendar Jain, Manish Sisodia, and Sanjay Singh. She said,”We all have to work together to make Arvind Kejriwal the Chief Minister of Delhi for the fourth time.” Delhi minister Gopal Rai said the BJP thought AAP leaders are like “Abhimanyu who’d fall in their traps; but Arvind Kejriwal turned out to be Arjun.
