AAP planning to hold rally in Varanasi to gauge people's
support
Aam Aadmi Party convener Arvind Kejriwal has declared that he
is ready to take on Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi in Varanasi in the Lok
Sabha elections, but he will do so only if “the people want” it.
He was addressing a rally here on Sunday, the second day of
his tour of the Lok Sabha constituencies in and around Bangalore. It was
attended by a large number of supporters, all wearing the AAP’s caps. Mr.
Kejriwal said he would gauge the people’s support at a rally the AAP plans to
hold in Varanasi on March 23. “I will do whatever the people say.”
Speaking in Hindi in his trademark style that alternates
between sardonic humour and references to himself as the common man, he spared
the BJP’s prime ministerial candidate no criticism and spoke of the media’s
“propaganda of falsehood” in their portrayal of Mr. Modi’s development model.
“For a year, the media have tried to show that Gujarat has
progressed under Modiji. So I decided to see the progress for myself. But what
I witnessed in my 10-day visit shocked me. Farmers complain that their land is
being grabbed and handed over to industries. Modiji represents the old school
crony capitalism,” he said.
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