2024 Lok Sabha Polls: Kejriwal calls for ousting BJP, says it would be ‘biggest act of patriotism’
2024 Lok Sabha Polls: Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) national convenor and Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal on Sunday gave a clarion call to oust the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) from power at the Centre and said it would be the “biggest act of patriotism” that would remove all obstacles to the country's progress.
Kejriwal claimed that the BJP could have done much more with the mandate it received in the 2014 and 2019 Lok Sabha elections.
"The people gave them (the BJP) landslide mandates in 2014 and 2019. They were elected with a large majority in both elections. They could have done much more to move the country forward if they had wanted to. However, we can see today how the atmosphere in the country has deteriorated under their rule," the chief minister told AAP volunteers at a gathering.
"Removing them from power would be the biggest act of patriotism in 2024. Only then will the country progress. Nobody knows what prompted them to make certain decisions. It begs the question of whether those decisions were made by them or by someone else," he added.
"The people of my constituency are all praise for our government as much as they are for our party's volunteers," Kejriwal said, heaping praise on AAP volunteers. Our volunteers do not have any political experience. Our party does not have a political background."
Even senior party leaders, such as himself, Manish Sisodia, Satyendar Jain, Atishi, and Saurabh Bharadwaj, lack political backgrounds, making them representatives of the common people, according to Kejriwal.
"We are the 'aam aadmi,'" Kejriwal said, comparing AAP leaders with those in other parties.
"Other party leaders are frequently found to be involved in hooliganism, skirmishes, and exploitation of people for personal gain. People, in my opinion, resent and dislike such leaders. They like our leaders because they are polite and courteous. If you come across a leader who appears to be a nice person, know that he is one of us. This is the AAP's trademark." Delhi's chief minister went on to say.
Kejriwal also criticized the BJP for raids on opposition leaders.
"These people (BJP) don't ask that the ED and CBI investigate their own. They may label a leader as the most corrupt one day and then bring him into their party the next, making him deputy CM or minister."
- With inputs from agencies
