Kicking off day two of his three-day 'jhaadu-chalao' campaign, Arvind Kejriwal arrived in Kanpur ready to do battle as he addressed crowds at Ram Lila Maidan on Sunday.
Kejriwal launched a tirade against RIL and Mukesh Ambani and read out two numbers he claimed belonged to their Swiss bank accounts. Repeating his allegations about gas pricing, Kejriwal said: "Modi is using a helicopter owned by Mukesh Ambani. Some people have sent me photographs too," he says.
"Now if Mukesh Ambani asks for a further hike in gas price, can Modi refuse?" he added.
Battle begins from UP. Agencies.
Rahul Gandhi and Narendra Modi no different, he said. "Rahul is in one pocket of Mukesh Ambani, Modi in the other," he says, demanding why no FIR has been registered against Priyanka Gandhi's husband Robert Vadra even in Rajasthan where there is now a BJP government. "Has Vadra also come to some setting with Modi?" he said.
"There is no Modi wave -- it's the badmaashi of TV channels," Aam Aadmi Party convenor and former chief minister of Delhi, speaking at a rally in Kanpur, denied that there is any Narendra Modi wave in India. "That is just the badmaashi of these television channels," he said.
Kejriwal also questioned the source of funding for BJP's grand rallies. "Rs 50 crore is being spent on each rally by Narendra Modi. They turn the stage into Lal Qilla," he said. "If you vote Modi to power it will be like getting out of the well and falling into the ditch -- that's your choice between a Manmohan Singh government and a Narendra Modi government," he added.
Kejriwal said that the existing parties were only interested in dividing up voters.
"I have heard that during Akhilesh Yadav's stint, there has been 101 communal clashes. These parties flare up people's sentiments. Then the Muslims go and sit either on Mulayam Singh Yadav's lap or the hold the Congress hands, and Hindus fall back on BJP. This way we remain divided and the parties keep looting us," said Kejriwal.
He also chose to comment on the contentious Babri Masjid issue cleverly dealing with it in the way of a personal anecdote. Talking about his maternal grandmother or naani (and you can never go wrong with daadi-naani anecdotes in India) he said, how she was not happy about the demolition of Babri Masjid. "When the Babri Masjid was demolished, I asked my naani, you must be very happy, your Ramji's mandir will be built now. To which she said, I don't want my mandir when it is built by destroying someone's masjid," says Kejriwal.
He also took a dig at Modi's 'development plank'. "You must have heard that there is a lot of development in Gujarat. I am asking, how do you know there is development in Gujarat? Because the media has told you. I am visiting Gujarat 5 March onward to see what development has happened. If there is indeed development, we can use the knowledge to bring about progress in other states. Otherwise, the lies should also be exposed," says Kejriwal.
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