Only AAP can ensure progress in Bawana: Kejriwal at panchayat
minister Arvind Kejriwal on Sunday raised the stakes for the upcoming Bawana bypoll and said that only an Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) candidate could ensure development of the constituency.
The Bawana Assembly bypoll necessitated after former AAP legislator Ved Parkash quit the Delhi assembly ahead of municipal elections to join the BJP. It will take place on August 23.
“AAP candidiate ko jitaiye, kyunki kaam to AAP sarkar ko hi karna hai (Ensure victory of AAP candidate as ultimately all work has to be done by the AAP government). If you vote for the Congress candidate, he will hardly be able to work for the area. If the BJP candidate wins, he will fight but can hardly get work done,” Kejriwal said, while addressing a Gaon Panchayat in Bawana on Sunday.
The BJP has fielded Ved Parkash in the bypoll, who will go up against former three-time Congress legislator Surender Kumar and AAP’s Ramchandra.
Having a rural character, Bawana, one of the 12 reserved constituencies in 70-member Delhi assembly, is dotted with 26 villages, unauthorised colonies and jj clusters.
Kejriwal, while trying to woo rural voters on Sunday, said that no other government has focussed on development of rural areas of the city as much as the AAP.
The chief minister counted the “highest” ever compensation to farmers and increase in circle rate of farmland as some achievements of his government. “I made Kailash Gehlot a minister because he comes from Delhi dehat and only a person from the rural area can appreciate the local problems,” Kejriwal said.