Addressing the gathering at an election campaign meeting at Town Hall here on Sunday to campaign for the party candidate M R Vasudeva in the city, he said that with two opposing national parties showing their two separate ways to proceed, the future of the country hung in balance. “We are faced with two choices today. This is a country of Tagore, Gandhi and Bhagat Singh, do not give us this choice. When it comes to corruption, there is no difference between the Congress and BJP,” he said, ticking off the list of corrupt politicians in both the national parties.
He said that this was the time to bring change in the country. Ab samay hai desh banane ka, badalne ka aur bachane ka (This is the time to build, make changes and save the country),” he said, urging the people to vote for AAP for a political alternative.
Speaking to mediapersons at a press conference earlier, he said that the AAP was in the fore to change the nature of Indian politics and provide a systemic change and alternative to it. On one hand, there is the Congress-led UPA government which has been discredited because of corruption, non-performance, vote-bank politics and keeping minorities as hostage, while on the other, the BJP-led government led by Narendra Modi is merely a substitute and not an alternative as it participates in the same kind of governance and corruption as the Congress, he said, adding that the BJP did not offer genuine development.
“The Gujarat mode of development is a model of selective growth of a small portion of population, where less attention is paid to education, healthcare and nutrition while the mortality rate is high. The BJP offers a model associated with majoritarianism and supports the idea of majority, which is against the basic foundation of the idea of India,” he said.
He said that the country needed a bigger choice and an alternative, which the AAP was looking to provide. “The party has risen from a movement against corruption and has become a movement against all kinds of systemic corruption and political corruption. We are here for social justice, protection of diversity and genuine secularism. We are here for governance by gram sabhas, and build a base for a viable political alternative,” he said.
In response to a query, he said that the party had fielded national party member Arvind Kejriwal opposite Narendra Modi in Varanasi, not just symbolically, but with an aim to defeat the latter.
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