Respond to Arvind Kejriwal’s arrest with your vote: AAP reorients poll campaign
Hindustan TimesThe Aam Aadmi Party on Monday kicked off a fresh campaign ahead of the Lok Sabha elections in Delhi centred around the slogan “Jail Ka Jawab Vote Se”, a two-pronged drive that aims to drum up support against chief minister Arvind Kejriwal’s arrest and to cash in on voter sympathy that the party hopes his incarceration will generate. The new campaign comes exactly a month after Kejriwal and his Punjab counterpart Bhagwant Mann flagged off the party’s initial “Sansad Me Bhi Kejriwal, Toh Delhi Hogi Aur Khushhal” drive. Read here: Respond to Arvind Kejriwal’s arrest with your vote, AAP tells Delhi in new pitch Tanvir Aeijaz, associate professor of political science at Ramjas College, said the AAP had earlier pitched its election campaign on ‘Sansad Me Bhi Kejriwal, Toh Delhi Hogi Aur Khushhal’ but now they have changed it to focus on mobilising supporters over the arrest. Delhi BJP president Virendra Sachdeva, meanwhile, said that the AAP’s Lok Sabha campaign is an admission by party leaders that Kejriwal will not get bail any time soon.