With the Aam Aadmi Occasion (AAP)’s high boss and predominant draw Arvind Kejriwal in judicial custody, the get together has determined to tweak its 2024 Lok Sabha marketing campaign with the slogan ‘Jail Ka Jawab Vote Se’.
Taking a leaf out of RS MP Sanjay Singh’s speech on April 4, the get together put up an enormous hoarding at its headquarters with Kejriwal’s face behind bars and the caption ‘Jail Ka Jawab Vote Se’. That day, addressing get together employees, Singh had stated: “After I went to fulfill Bhabhi (Kejriwal’s spouse), I noticed tears in her eyes for the primary time. The Almighty will avenge her tears. The individuals of Delhi will avenge her tears… Jail Ka Jawab Vote Se Denge’.”
The AAP has already put up posters of Kejriwal behind bars throughout Delhi and even modified the background of the get together workplace to incorporate the motif. On Monday, the backdrop of the get together’s press convention modified to an enormous placard with the identical theme within the yellow-blue that adorned the get together’s flags submit 2015.
The concept behind the brand new slogan is to maintain the problem alive and hope to translate the sympathy that residents might have for the chief minister into votes for the get together.
Requested if this could be AAP’s overarching major marketing campaign and could be acceptable to ally Congress, AAP MP Sandeep Pathak stated: “This might be our major marketing campaign. Kejriwal was the chief minister of Delhi when he was arrested. Our alliance accomplice can also be in settlement with us however it’s as much as them to resolve what their slogan might be. Our marketing campaign will revolve round this slogan.”
CONSPIRACY, ALLEGES AAP
Pathak, who can also be AAP’s organisation in-charge, known as Kejriwal’s arrest a conspiracy to maintain him away from the election marketing campaign throughout a press convention on Monday.
Calling it the primary time {that a} sitting chief minister has been put behind bars, Pathak listed all of the pro-poor steps taken by the Kejriwal authorities that included training, well being, free bus rides for girls and extra.
“At this time, Kejriwal-ji is in jail. He has fulfilled his ‘dharm’ utterly. He staked the whole lot, together with his authorities, and even went to jail. Now all eyes are on how Delhi fulfils its accountability. Delhiites had given delivery to this model of politics and now a conspiracy has been hatched to finish that politics. At this time, we’re launching a marketing campaign known as ‘Jail Ka Jawab Vote Se’. AAP will launch a door-to-door marketing campaign to make this well-liked.”
Minister Gopal Rai stated Delhi’s election will turn into an ‘andolan’. “This marketing campaign might be consummated on March 25, the day Delhi votes. We attraction to all that in case you really feel Arvind Kejriwal has accomplished something for you, your one vote would be the actual reply to this ‘tanashahi’ [dictatorship]. Open the gates of Tihar and produce Arvind Kejriwal out.”
Sanjay Singh appealed to voters to “keep in mind Kejriwal’s face once you go to vote, keep in mind the zero electrical energy invoice, the face of your baby who was finding out in a college with poor infrastructure and now’s finding out in an AC college, keep in mind your sister who travels freed from price in buses, keep in mind previous people who find themselves now happening free pilgrimages and extra”.
Pankaj Gupta, AAP’s nationwide secretary, alleged that it’s due to the get together’s rising reputation nationwide that Arvind Kejriwal is behind bars.
Pathak, Singh, Rai and Gupta launched the marketing campaign holding placards of the jailed CM and the slogan.
WHAT ABOUT POLL STRATEGY NOW?
Kejriwal had already launched the get together’s marketing campaign for Delhi, Haryana and Punjab earlier than he was arrested by the ED. In early March, kicking off his get together’s marketing campaign for Delhi, the slogan was ‘Sansad Mein Bhi Kejriwal toh Dilli Hogi Aur Khushaal’.
A day later, the AAP nationwide convenor, together with Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann, sounded the bugle for the lone Lok Sabha seat Kurukshetra that AAP is contesting as an INDIA ally. The slogan then was ‘Badlenge Kurukshetra, Badlenge Haryana/Ibbke INDIA ko jeetana’. Quickly, the duo set in movement the get together’s Punjab marketing campaign with the slogan ‘Punjab Sansad Vich Ve Bhagwant Mann’, with Mann because the face of the marketing campaign.
Nevertheless, simply days afterward March 21, Kejriwal was arrested by officers of the Enforcement Directorate and is in judicial custody in Tihar proper now. On March 31, on the INDIA bloc’s rally in Ramlila Maidan, the chief minister’s spouse Sunita Kejriwal learn out the jailed chief’s six ‘ensures’ if voted to energy. These included 24×7 electrical energy provide, free and high-quality training, free electrical energy for the poor, Mohalla Clinics and free well being companies, MSP for farmers as detailed within the Swaminathan Fee report and statehood for Delhi.
Together with the chief minister, former deputy CM Manish Sisodia, former well being minister Satyendar Jain and AAP communication in-charge Vijay Nair are additionally behind bars. MP Sanjay Singh, who was arrested on October 4, is out on bail.
That is the primary time that the AAP is contesting as an ally within the opposition bloc. In all, the get together is contesting on 22 seats in 2024. As a part of the opposition INDIA bloc, it’s contesting on seven seats in Delhi, Goa and Haryana. There is no such thing as a alliance in Punjab, whereas in Assam, there’s nonetheless a push and pull between the Congress and the AAP.
The AAP has declared all candidates for the 4 seats in Delhi, one in Haryana and two in Gujarat the place it’s preventing as an ally of the INDIA bloc. In Punjab, the get together has declared 10 candidates for Punjab’s 13 Lok Sabha seats. Nevertheless, Sushil Kumar Rinku, the get together’s sitting MP and candidate from Jalandhar, switched sides and joined the BJP.
In Delhi, AAP MLA Somnath Bharti is contesting from New Delhi constituency, which occurs to be the chief minister’s meeting constituency. MLAs Kuldeep Kumar and Sahiram Pehelwan are contesting from East and South Delhi, whereas former minister and MP Mahabal Mishra — who switched from the Congress to AAP — is contesting from West Delhi. The Congress is but to declare its candidates for the three seats of Delhi.
AAP’s former MP Sushil Gupta is the get together’s candidate from Kurukshetra. As far as Punjab is anxious, 5 cupboard ministers — Gurmeet Singh Khuddian, Balbir Singh, Gurmeet Singh Meer Hayer, Kuldeep Singh Dhaliwal and Laljit Singh Bhuller — are among the many 10 candidates that the get together had declared. Gurpreet Singh GP, a former Congress MP; singer-actor Karamjit Singh Anmol; former Congress MLA Raj Kumar Chabbewal and volunteer Malwinder Singh Kang are among the many others.
In Gujarat, MLAs Chaitar Vasava and Umesh Makwana are the get together’s candidates from Bharuch and Bhavnagar respectively. In Assam, the get together withdrew its candidate Bhaven Choudhury, whereas Manoj Dhanohar and Rishi Raj will contest from Dibrugarh and Sonitpur. In Assam, the Congress has put up Lurinjyoti Gogoi (AGP president) and Prem Lal Ganju from Sonitpur. The AAP has demanded that the Congress additionally reciprocate by withdrawing its candidates from Dibrugarh and Sonitpur.
