As leads turned into results for the Delhi Assembly polls on Tuesday, giving the Aam Aadmi Party a near encore of its unprecedented 2015 electoral victory, Arvind Kejriwal told his followers: 바카라This is the day of Lord Hanuman who has blessed the people of Delhi.바카라
A few days earlier, Kejriwal had stumped many, including leaders of the BJP, by declaring to a TV News channel that he was a 바카라kattar Hanuman bhakt바카라, following which he recited the Hanuman Chalisa. Days later, the Delhi CM paid a visit to a Hanuman temple, riling the Hindutvavadi BJP further.
Now, armed with the 바카라blessings of Hanuman ji바카라, who he credited for ensuring his party바카라s second consecutive win in the national capital, Kejriwal said he prayed to the main lieutenant of Lord Ram to 바카라show us the right path바카라 to serve Delhiites for the next five years.
Kejriwal바카라s decision to project himself as a 바카라kattar Hanuman bhakt바카라 was not sudden, say AAP sources. In fact, Jai Bajrangbali or Jai Hanuman is likely to be become the AAP바카라s riposte to BJP바카라s decades-old Jai Shri Ram chant from now on whenever political slugfests between Delhi바카라s re-elected ruling party and its saffron rival turn into a match of competitive Hindutva.
A key aide of Kejriwal told Outlook the party plans to 바카라seriously adopt Hanuman ji as its mascot the same way that the BJP has co-opted Bhagwan Ram over the past three decades바카라. The reason: 바카라The BJP can바카라t brand AAP as anti-Hindu or anti-national if our leader positions himself as a staunch disciple of Hanuman ji who was the staunchest ally of the very god (Lord Ram) around whom the BJP바카라s entire politics revolves.바카라
Whether or not Kejriwal바카라s Hanuman gambit will pay off in endearing himself and his party to the BJP voter in the years to come is too premature a prediction to make. Equally unclear is whether this competitive bhakti between the AAP and BJP could upset the former바카라s liberal or left-of-centre vote bank, which has been instrumental in propelling the party to its present status.
The Congress party, as the assembly poll results have once again shown, is a dead alternative in Delhi for the non-BJP voter. The Muslims, AAP sources say, 바카라have no other option바카라 but to vote for Kejriwal despite his overt soft Hindutva pitch, which forced the party to remain silent on the Citizenship Amendment Act, support the abrogation of Article 370 and not just maintain a calculated distance from the Shaheen Bagh protests but saw the chief minister vocalize that he would have had the protest hotspot cleared 바카라within 2 hours바카라 if the Delhi police were under his control.
