Is AAP’s ‘Make India Number 1’ campaign a bid to upstage Congress’ Bharat Jodo Yatra?

Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal has kick-started Aam Aadmi Social gathering (AAP)’s ‘Make India No 1’ marketing campaign on the identical day that Rahul Gandhi is flagging off Congress’ Bharat Jodo Yatra.

AAP’s nationwide marketing campaign comes with an eye fixed on the upcoming Gujarat and Himachal Pradesh Meeting polls, slated later this yr, and 2024 Lok Sabha elections.

Launching the marketing campaign in his hometown of Hisar in Haryana, Kejriwal, flanked by Punjab chief minister Bhagwant Mann, stated India can lead the world however our system is damaged.

“Up to now 75 years, these political events have accomplished dangerous politics. If left of their palms, the nation will stay backward for an additional 75 years.”

What’s AAP’s ‘Make India No 1’ marketing campaign? Is AAP making an attempt to upstage Congress?

Let’s take an in depth look:

What’s ‘Make India No 1’

Below its nationwide Make India No 1 marketing campaign, AAP convenor Arvind Kejriwal will journey throughout states, maintain rallies, youth conferences and tiranga yatras, as per Financial Occasions.

He’ll work together with the occasion’s rank and file, handle a youth sammelan and maintain a tiranga yatra.

Elaborating on the explanation for selecting Haryana for commencing the marketing campaign, a senior AAP chief informed ET, on situation of anonymity, “AAP is making an attempt to construct its occasion organisation in Haryana. The village stage initiative of going door-to-do or to construct occasion organisation has yielded response. The 2-day programme of Kejriwal ji will give it additional fillip.”

AAP is eyeing Gujarat and HP Meeting elections in addition to 2024 LS polls with its marketing campaign. News18 File Photograph

On Tuesday, Kejriwal had stated in a video message, “Just a few days in the past, we launched a programme – Make India No 1. It’s the dream of 130 crore folks to see India develop into world’s primary nation.”

Additional, he apprised that after Haryana, he’ll go to different states and urge folks to affix the motion. “Now, there should be an alliance of 130 crore folks. Now we have to work like a staff, like a household. If it occurs, then nobody can cease us from making India the world’s #1 nation,” Quint quoted the AAP chief as saying.

Throughout an occasion in Delhi’s Talkatora Stadium, Kejriwal had introduced a quantity – 9510001000 — on which individuals can provide a missed name to affix the Make India No 1 motion.

AAP’s nationwide ambitions

With Make India No 1 motion, AAP plans to dent BJP’s stronghold Gujarat within the coming election and emerge as a problem to Narendra Modi within the 2024 normal election, AAP sources informed PTI.

The occasion’s nationwide aspirations have been fuelled by its latest landslide victory in Punjab and its entry into Goa the place it bagged two of the 40 Meeting seats.

“The BJP-led central authorities has ruined the nation’s economic system by writing off loans value crores of rupees to profit the prime minister’s associates and in addition diminished the company tax however didn’t give any reduction to the frequent folks. We’ll inform folks concerning the wrongdoings of the Modi authorities and their affect on their lives,” PTI quoted a celebration supply as saying.

Whereas interacting with the plenty, AAP will stress on the need of imparting free schooling to kids, bettering the standard of presidency faculties, offering free healthcare services, electrical energy and water in addition to producing employment and livelihood alternatives.

Congress’ Bharat Jodo Yatra

The grand previous occasion is in search of to rejuvenate its standing in nationwide politics with its Bharat Jodo Yatra masking 12 states in additional than 100 days.

Rahul Gandhi, together with 117 Congress members, will spotlight “financial disparities, social polarisation and political centralisation” in the course of the yatra, PTI reported.

Rahul Gandhi will start the Bharat Jodo Yatra from Kanyakumari on 8 September. Twitter/@bharatjodo

Earlier within the day, after attending a prayer assembly at Rajiv Gandhi memorial in Tamil Nadu’s Sriperumbudur, the previous Congress president stated in a tweet, “I misplaced my father to the politics of hate and division. I cannot lose my beloved nation to it too.”

“Love will conquer hate. Hope will defeat worry. Collectively, we are going to overcome,” Rahul stated forward of the yatra’s launch in Kanyakumari.

AAP’s try and outshine Congress?

AAP has claimed that Kejriwal’s marketing campaign was at all times on the horizon and known as the timing coinciding with Congress’ 3,570 kilometre padyatra a “coincidence”, Indian Categorical reported.

Dismissing Rahul Gandhi’s Bharat Jodo Yatra, senior AAP leaders stated it holds no significance. “The Congress is shrinking every day. With their MLAs up on the market in every state, they’ve misplaced relevance. Their yatra is of no consequence as folks see AAP as the one viable opposition in states the place the BJP and Congress had been the dominant events,” a celebration chief informed Indian Categorical.

Congress and AAP have dismissed one another’s campaigns. PTI Photograph

Assam chief minister Himanta Biswa Sarma at the moment stirred controversy together with his comment on Congress’ Bharat Jodo Yatra. “In the event that they wish to begin Bharat Jodo Yatra, then Rahul Gandhi ought to do that in Pakistan. What are the advantages of doing this Yatra in India? India is linked, and united. I wish to recommend Rahul Gandhi to take the Bharat Jodo Yatra programme to Pakistan,” Sarma informed ANI.

In the meantime, Congress hit out at AAP over its ‘Make India No 1’ motion, saying the Kejriwal-led occasion is imitating them.

Congress MP and AICC Delhi in-charge Shaktisinh Gohil informed Indian Categorical that their struggle is with the BJP and “it is going to stay with the BJP.”

With inputs from businesses

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