AAP, BJP take potshots at each other in MCD campaign songs
NEW DELHI: The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) on Tuesday launched campaign songs for the December 4 municipal corporation elections.
In its song, the BJP, which has run the civic body for 15 years, highlighted the work done by the party as well as the central government, and cornered the Aap-led Delhi government on air pollution, the degradation of the Yamuna and corruption.
The AAP, in its song, raised the issue of sanitation in Delhi, and promised that chief minister Arvind Kejriwal will provide solution to all civic problems in the Capital.
It is a high-stakes fight for control of MCD, which caters to nearly 80% of Delhi and provides key services to the citizens. While the AAP is trying to replicate its success in the 2015 and 2020 assembly elections, the BJP is fighting hard to win a fourth consecutive term to the civic body.
Launching the AAP song, titled “Janta Ki Taiyyari Hai, Kejriwal Ki Baari Hai” (the people are ready, it’s Kejriwal’s turn), deputy chief minister Manish Sisodia accused the BJP of failing to clean the Capital.
“MCD’S primary task was to keep Delhi clean. However BJP colossally failed to perform its duty. People gave one chance to CM Arvind Kejriwal and he transformed education, healthcare, gave free electricity, sent elderly for free pilgrimage, while BJP only gave garbage mountains during its reign in MCD. If Kejriwal could bring so much progress in five years, why couldn’t Bjp-ruled MCD do anything?” Sisodia said. The song has been sung by AAP legislator Dilip Pandey, with lyrics written by Lokesh Singh, a cultural cell functionary from the party’s Bihar state unit. A flash mob team danced to the song when it was launched at the AAP headquarters. “In the upcoming MCD election, only one slogan is echoing across Delhi and that is ‘MCD mein bhi Kejriwal’. People are extremely fed up with BJP and they are raising this slogan with zeal... Piles of garbage are lying around every street of Delhi. Stray animals are roaming on the streets. All the lanes are damaged,” Sisodia said.
The BJP’S campaign song is sung by party’s North East Delhi MP Manoj Tiwari.
The BJP song was released by Delhi BJP chief Adesh Gupta, leader of opposition in the state assembly Ramvir Singh Bidhuri, and other leaders at a function at the Delhi BJP office.
“We are going to win the MCD elections again with the full support of the public,” said Gupta.
Tiwari, a Bhopuri actor-singer-turned politician, said that through the song he has tried to convey the problems faced by the people of Delhi in the last eight years under the Kejriwal government. “The work the Modi government and the municipal corporation have done is the reason that the people trust the BJP, and with blessings of people, we’ll win the corporation elections once again,” Tiwari said.