Keypoints:
- AAP won 27 seats in Surat Municipal Corporation, after which it asked the people of Gujarat to give them a chance to serve for 5 years, they’ll ”forget 25 years of BJP rule”.
- In the past five years, AAP government in Delhi has given jobs to 10 lakh youths, he said.
On Friday, Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal said that if the people of Gujarat gives AAP government a chance to serve for five years, they’ll make them “forget the 25 years of BJP rule.” This comes after the party’s success in the recently concluded Surat Municipal Corporation polls.
The chief of the AAP also addressed a huge rally at Sarthana in Surat, along with this he also met the family members of 22 students who died in a fire tragedy at Takshashila Arcade in the area.
At certain places which are Patidar dominated, people showered rose petals on Kejriwal and the party’s state president, Gopal Italia.
“With such a massive support and love given to me in the roadshow today, I wanted to say that something unusual might happen in Gujarat in the coming time. The Congress is finished, and I appeal the few good leaders in the party to join AAP. In BJP, who are desh bhakts (patriots), should join the AAP. In the coming days, AAP will make a new Gujarat where people will get free electricity, good hospitals and schools, farmers will not have to commit suicide, and youths will get jobs,” Kejriwal said.
Talking about the success of the party in Municipal Corporation elections, he said that, “All the 27 elected AAP candidates are youths. I want to appeal to the youths of Gujarat to stop begging for jobs from these (ruling party) people. All youths should join politics. When the youths go to the state Assembly, they will be getting their own jobs.”
“One party is playing politics of ‘tushtikaran’ (appeasement), while second does politics of ‘nafrat’ (hate). The public of Gujarat says, we don’t want politics, we want jobs, good schools, colleges, hospitals, roads, and development. We (AAP) do not know how to do politics, we only know about doing works and we have made best schools, colleges, hospitals in Delhi.”
In the past 5 years, Delhi’s AAP government has given jobs to 10 lakh youths, he added. “The BJP is in power in the state for 25 years, the people of Gujarat are asking as in 25 years, how many jobs you have given? The people wanted to know why the electricity charges are high in Gujarat and highest in the country. There are many farmers of Gujarat who contacted me and said that in Gujarat farmers gets power only for 8 hours, and in many villages the power supply is in the night. The farmers have to work in the fields in the night. People want to know why farmers of Gujarat, are committing suicide.”
