Pre-poll surveys say the AAP is number two or three in Punjab. What바카라™s your prediction?
Most of the media is corrupt now. I don바카라™t think any 바카라˜survey바카라™ is being conducted. These are all being faked. The media makes crores (of rupees) during elections. To publish incorrect and fake surveys is criminal. We will take this up.
We should get 100 (of the 117) seats. They were saying we are weak in Majha region, but not any longer. There바카라™s an upsurge for us. It is going to be uniform (support) for the AAP.
A few weeks ago, the Congress wasn바카라™t talked about as much, but now it has come back in towns, even villages. Is the AAP slipping?
I don바카라™t agree. It바카라™s the CongÂress that is sliding. We, in fact, dominate rural areas, which form 70 per cent of Punjab바카라™s population. Among cities, Patiala is entirely voting for us. Jallandhar too, so is Amritsar.
Yes, yes, even many journalists have surveyed it in the last two weeks. They have distinctly noticed that the AAP is what people are talking about.
There is another tendency in rural Punjab: avid support for the Akali Dal. Jat Sikhs, it is said, will back the Akali symbol. The panthic (faith-based), too, support the Akali Dal.
The AAP talks only about one thing: truth and honesty. That touches the heart of everybody바카라”Sikh, Hindu, Muslim and Christian. We are honest and that shows in our body language, in what we say. That바카라™s what people like about us.
There are strong rumours about the AAP sympathising with separatists, that you stayed at the house of a 바카라˜separatist바카라™s바카라™ relative.
This is complete nonsense. The house I stayed in has three flats. In one lives an SHO of Punjab Police, in one a joint commissioner of the local municipal corporation and in the third, our volunteer바카라”my host. If it is a terrorist바카라™s house, how come a joint commissioner and station house officer live there?
What will you consider your 바카라˜success바카라™ in Punjab?
We will consider ourselves successful after the election results are out. We바카라™d start running the government and fulfil our promises; that will be our success.
What are your promises?
We have to wipe drugs out of Punjab. Also corruption, waive loans of farmers, resolve traders바카라™ problems, provide jobs to youth.
All parties make similar promises...
The difference lies in what promises are beliÂeved. We have done what we said we would do. In Punjab, whoever talks about us says two things. First, that they have tried both parties (Akali Dal and Congress) and now only the AAP feels convincing to them. Second, they say that they have spoken to their relatives who live in Delhi. And those relatives have told them what all we have done in Delhi. Delhi바카라™s example is speaking for itself in our favour.
So the AAP needs a majority in Punjab, or you won바카라™t be able to showcase your work?
Yes, we want to demonstrate the corruption-free government we spoke of during the Anna Hazare movement. In Delhi, we achieved this to the extent within our control. The rest they (Centre) did not let us do. In Punjab, they will not be able to put roadblocks in our way. We will bring an end to corruption here. All Punjab바카라™s problems are ultimately related to corruption. There is nasha because they (Akalis) want to make money. There바카라™s crime because there is corruption. Industries fled Punjab becaÂuse of a monthly 바카라˜goonda tax바카라™...
Yet the discourse in Punjab is only getting vitÂiated. Even you said, on the NRI issue, that you바카라™ll show the Congress its 바카라˜aukat바카라™...
How can Amarinder Singh (Congress바카라™ CM candidate) say NRIs would not be allowed to enter Punjab even for relatives바카라™ last rites? Is he now calling all NRIs separatists when he says this?
