Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) national convener and Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Saturday said that he was born on Krishna Janmashtami and that God sent him with a special task to finish off "descendants" of Kansa. He appeared to be targeting the ruling dispensation in poll-bound Gujarat and responding to the posters that surfaced calling him "anti-Hindu." He said that derogatory terms for God were used in the posters and banners, and he added that the Gujarati people will punish those responsible, news agency ANI reported.
Kejriwal while addressing the people of Vadodara said: "The people put the poster have used insulting words for God. They have insulted God. They hate me so much that they have not even spared God in the poster. I want to ask the people of Gujarat if they are going to spare those who have used such words. These people are the children of Kansa, who are insulting God." He then called himself a religious person and also claimed to be an ardent devotee of Lord Hanuman.
Delhi CM Kejriwal and Punjab CM Bhagwant Mann yelled the slogans "Jai Shri Ram" and "Jai Shri Krishna" together during their road show. In numerous Gujarati cities earlier in the day, banners and posters with the slogan "Anti-Hindu" and images of Arvind Kejriwal wearing a skull surfaced. During the 2017 Assembly elections in Gujarat, AAP made its first appearance but was unable to score victory.
AAP's aspirations in Gujarat have been boosted by its result in the Surat Municipal Corporation (SMC) elections in February 2021, when the BJP won 93 seats, the Aam Aadmi Party won 27, and the Congress received no votes. Congress, meantime, had given the governing BJP a fright during the 2017 Assembly elections by limiting its MLAs to 99 and gaining 77 seats on its own
It is worth noticing that the party has been trying hard to replace BJP in Gujarat.
(With inputs from ANI)