Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) on Monday launched the ‘Jail Ka Jawab Vote Se’ theme ahead of the Lok Sabha elections. The announcement comes a day after the get together held a daylong fasting protest to specific solidarity with jailed AAP nationwide convenor and Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal.
Top AAP leaders held a daylong quick at Jantar Mantar to protest towards Kejriwal’s arrest by the ED and asserted that folks will give a becoming reply to the BJP within the upcoming Lok Sabha polls for sending him to jail.
The AAP leaders additionally dared the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on the Centre to impose President’s rule in Delhi, claiming that the saffron get together might be erased from the nationwide capital in that case.
Scores of volunteers and supporters of the AAP took half within the quick, singing patriotic songs and carrying posters bearing a picture of Kejriwal behind bars.
Similar protests had been held in different states in addition to by Indians overseas, together with on the Harvard Square in Boston, the Hollywood Sign in Los Angeles, outdoors the Indian embassy in Washington DC, on the Times Square in New York and in Toronto, London and Melbourne, amongst different locations, AAP leaders stated.
Gopal Rai, the convenor of the get together’s Delhi unit, asserted that Kejriwal will come out of jail and be part of the nation’s combat towards the BJP’s “dictatorship”.
The stage during which the AAP leaders had been seated throughout the six-hour quick had a picture of Kejriwal behind bars within the backdrop. Portraits of B R Ambedkar and Bhagat Singh flanking Mahatma Gandhi’s photograph had been saved in entrance of the stage.
Addressing the protesters at Jantar Mantar, the AAP’s Rajya Sabha MP Sanjay Singh, who was just lately granted bail by the Supreme Court within the Delhi excise “scam” case, asserted that “Kejriwal was, is and will remain honest”.
Singh questioned Kejriwal’s arrest by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) in a money-laundering case linked to the liquor “scam”.
He claimed that Kejriwal’s identify was talked about by simply 4 of the 456 witnesses of the CBI and the ED, the 2 businesses probing the case. “People know very well under what situation these witnesses named Kejriwal,” the AAP chief stated.
He requested the AAP volunteers to work more durable to make sure the victory of the get together candidates and people of the INDIA opposition bloc within the Lok Sabha polls to pave the best way for the exit of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Home Minister Amit Shah from energy.
(With PTI inputs)
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