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Lok Sabha elections 2019: ‘Loudspeaker man’ seeks votes for AAP in Darya Ganj
Singh said he is using to loudspeaker to draw the attention of the people to Gupta’s message. As Gupta and his supporters passed through lanes,he sought votes for Gupta.
Dalip Singh, a doctor from Bhopal, sought votes for Aam Aadmi Party’s Pankaj Gupta in the alleys of Darya Ganj on Sunday. Carrying a loudspeaker on his head that belted songs and a pre-recorded message, “ayega bhai ayega, jhadu wala ayega (The one with the broom symbol will win this time), Singh turned heads with his unique campaigning style.
Singh said he is using to loudspeaker to draw the attention of the people to Gupta’s message. As Gupta and his supporters passed through lanes,he sought votes for Gupta.
Singh said he is a doctor by profession and had come to campaign for Gupta because he believes in the party’s idealogy. Along with Singh, there were supporters donning the party’s signature white caps and carrying their candidate’s cut-outs and drum players.
Gupta said the Delhi will get the status of full state if AAP wins from Delhi. “Vote for Kejiwal again like you did in 2015 assembly elections. We will get Delhi a full statehood,” he said. The engineer-turned politician is contesting against the two heavyweights — sitting MP from the constituency and the Bharatiya Janta Party leader Harsh Vardhan and Congress’ two -time MP from the seat JP Agarwal.
Gupta said the AAP has a better chance in Chandni Chowk. “There are two reasons behind this. First, people of the constituency are angry with the ruling BJP because of the sealing, the demonetisation and the GST. Also, they no longer trust the Congress’ candidate(JP Aggarwal) who had left them to fight from the North East Delhi constituency in 2009,” Gupta said.
Irshad Khan, a shopkeeper, said votes of the minority community will get divided between the Congress and the AAP. A customer sitting at his shop, Niyazuddin, nodded his head in affirmation and said, “Also, people vote for national parties in the Lok Sabha elections. AAP is good for the assembly elections. They are doing good work but they do not have a national presence,” he said.
