Shatrughan Sinha praises AAP leader Arvind Kejriwal, calls him a good man

Just two days to go for Delhi polls, but Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) leader Arvind Kejriwal seems to be getting support from unexpected corners. Moments after West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Thursday urged the people of Delhi to vote for AAP, BJP leader Shatrughan Sinha has too joined the bandwagon in AAP's praise.

                              


"Arvind Kejriwal is a good man, and AAP's prospects are bright," Sinha said, adding "Everyone is talking about AAP, newspapers are flooded with them, TV channels are discussing them, means that they are popular."
He said, "Fight in Delhi is between Kiran Bedi, who has a clean image and has been a good officer, and Arvind Kejriwal, who too has a clean image."
The negative campaigning that I've been observing in Delhi politics is unfortunate, we must not indulge in mud-slinging, the leader was quoted as saying.
Comparing Bedi with BJP leader Harsh Vardhan, he however said, "Harsh Vardhan would have been a better choice for Delhi CM candidate."
In a surprise move, Mamata Banerjee on Thursday urged the people of Delhi to vote for AAP. "My request to all of you in Delhi to please vote for AAP," she tweeted, adding, "For the greater need of the country and development in Delhi."
On Wednesday, the CPI(M) too had announced their support to AAP and asked their supporters to vote for Arvind Kejriwal. AAP and BJP are the main contenders for power in Saturday's election for the 70-member Delhi assembly.

Grateful to Bedi for sparing my children : Kejriwal

Aam Aadmi Party chief Arvind Kejriwal on Sunday took a jibe at BJP chief ministerial nominee Kiran Bedi as he thanked her for sparing his children in BJP's campaign advertisement.

"I am grateful to Kiran Bedi ji for sparing my family and kids out of BJP's ads today," he tweeted.

He was referring to a cartoon that appeared on BJP's campaign advertisement alleging that Kejriwal had used his children to usurp power in Delhi. The same cartoon also had a caricature of Lok Pal crusader Anna Hazare's portrait with a garland on it. Kejriwal had slammed the BJP for depicting Hazare as a dead person.

                             

BJP's Sunday advertisement is also in a cartoon form in which the BJP has alleged that Kejriwal went back on his pre-poll promise of not taking a government bungalow as residence if he came to power.

Kejriwal had moved in to government's bungalow at Tilak Marg last year after he became the Chief Minister of Delhi. He vacated the bungalow after he resigned.

Both the BJP and the AAP have been embroiled in a poster war ahead of the February 7 polls. While the BJP started publishing a series of cartoons in newspapers, the AAP used auto posters to term Bedi an opportunist.

5 questions BJP has asked Arvind Kejriwal

Just hours after a crucial meeting of the BJP to draw up a final battle plan for the Delhi assembly polls, party leader Rajiv Pratap Rudy on Thursday shot five questions at Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) chief Arvind Kejriwal, highlighting his supposed "failure to keep up his promise" to the people.
At Thursday's strategic meeting, the BJP had decided to deploy over 120 MPs from various states to beef up the party's poll campaign in the capital. It also decided to field five questions daily to AAP leader until the elections.

                                 
At the ensuing press conference on Thursday afternoon, Rudy fielded five questions for Kejriwal.
1. Why use security despite pledging not to?
2. Why use metro once only and then use official car?
3. Why did you use private jet for personal use?
4. Why did AAP take Congress support to form government? and
5. Why no action was taken against Sheila Dikshit?
Apparently, the BJP has decided to go into a full battle mode in a bid to counter the AAP and secure a majority in the Delhi elections due on February 7.
Several important decisions were taken at the party's strategy meeting at the party headquarters on Thursday. It was attended by several top leaders of the party and was chaired by party chief Amit Shah.
The party has roped in 120 MPs and hundreds of party workers from 13 states to Delhi to run the election campaign as it reached feverish pitch.
There will be 250 BJP rallies in the city in the next few days and Prime Minister Narendra Modi will address four of them.
"We will do micro-management of the elections. We will be fighting for two-third majority," Bangalore South MP and senior party leader Ananth Kumartold reporters after the meeting.
There will also be daily assessment of the campaign, he said.
The party however will not release a manifesto, but only "a vision document."