If the people of Amethi want, they will overthrow the dynastic rule of the Gandhi family, said Aam Aadmi Party leader on Sunday morning, hours before his historic rally in Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi's constituency of Amethi in Uttar Pradesh from where Vishwas has decided he will contest, "or from anywhere else that Rahul decides to contest".
Vishwas is likely to contest from Amethi in 2014. Image courtesy: Ibnlive
The high-profile constituency, represented by Rajiv Gandhi and Sonia Gandhi in the past, has turned a hub of political activity ever since Kumar Vishwas announced his intention to hold a rally in the town, to be called the 'Jan Vishwas' rally.
Speaking to Times Now channel even as a large cavalcade of vehicles made its way on the Lucknow-Rae Bareili highway on Sunday morning, Vishwas said, "It has to be the decision of the people of Amethi, do they want to end dynastic rule? The arrogance of the ruling class, that we have ruled you and you will continue to vote us into power, that must end."
The agenda for Amethi should be about power, governance, infrastructure, he said.
At a press conference earlier, Vishwas was quoted as saying he won't be frighteend by the scale of his battle. "I am going to Amethi tomorrow and if not called to Delhi in connection with some work, I will return only after Lok Sabha elections," the 43-year-old poet-turned-politician was quoted as saying in NDTV.
Kumar Vishwas has found his way into the headlines rather comfortably early on in his political career, still wriggling out of a controversy after an old video surfaced showing him making a comment about a Muharram procession even as he seems to overplay his hand calling Modi as well as Rahul to contest against him from Amethi.
On Saturday, his press conference in Lucknow was disrupted when a youngster threw an egg at him even as Vishwas was spelling out his party's priorities vis-a-vis Uttar Pradesh.
The young man, who identified himself as Saif Zafri, was verpowered by Aam Aadmi Party activists and handed over to police. Zafri identified himself as a member of the Mulayam Youth Brigade and belongs to Bijnor in Uttar Pradesh. He was apparently angry at Vishwas's reported comments on Islam and a Muharram procession.
Meanwhile, an old Youtube video has also surfaced and was being shared on micro-blogging site Twitter, showing Vishwas making statements referring to BJP's Narendra Modi, who is present at the event, as akin to Lord Shiva who drinks poison.
After the incident at his press conference, Vishwas said he would not be cowed down.
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