Ahmedabad, Individuals are sensible and can reply to the BJP’s transfer to place A nationwide convener and Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal behind bars by way of their votes, his spouse Sunita Kejriwal mentioned right here on Thursday.
She arrived at Ahmedabad airport earlier than heading to election rallies for candidates of the Aam Aadmi Celebration in Bharuch and Bhavnagar Lok Sabha constituencies in Gujarat.
“They’ve put Arvind Kejriwal forcefully behind bars throughout elections in order that his voice would not attain the folks. However the individuals are very sensible and they’ll reply with their votes,” she advised media individuals on the airport.
Kejriwal was arrested on March 21 by the Enforcement Directorate in a cash laundering case associated to the Delhi authorities’s now-scrapped excise coverage. He’s at the moment lodged within the Tihar jail within the nationwide capital beneath judicial custody.
A’s Rajya Sabha member Sandeep Pathak, who accompanied her on the election tour, focused Prime Minister Narendra Modi over his remarks that he received’t permit reservation to Muslims within the identify of faith.
“I wish to ask the prime minister why he remembers all these items earlier than the elections. Why do not you ask for votes on the energy of your work? I feel the prime minister is the largest pal of Pakistan,” he mentioned.
Addressing an election rally at Gujarat’s Anand earlier within the day, PM Modi dubbed the Congress a “disciple” of Pakistan and mentioned the neighbouring nation was desperate to make the ‘shehzada’ of the grand outdated social gathering the following PM of India.
Individuals are mature sufficient and so they now search faculties, hospitals and higher issues in life, mentioned Pathak.
He claimed that individuals are with the A which has fielded candidates on two out of the state’s 26 seats as a part of the opposition INDIA bloc’s seat-sharing settlement.
Of the Lok Sabha seats in Gujarat, Surat has gone to the BJP’s Mukesh Dalal received uncontested because of the rejection of the nomination of Congress candidates and the withdrawal by others within the fray.
“Even within the meeting elections, folks showered their love on Kejriwal, his work in Delhi. The folks of Gujarat will shatter the BJP’s overconfidence. Folks will reply by way of votes for a way Kejriwal was jailed by way of injustice and tyranny,” he mentioned.
On Surat’s BJP candidate profitable the election uncontested, Pathak mentioned that the ruling social gathering was indulging in politics by dividing the nation and neighborhood and insulting others.
“This quantities to stealing the general public’s rights and beginning a practice that may be very unhealthy for the nation and the folks,” he mentioned.
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