New Delhi, Feb 2 (PTI): Aam Aadmi Party Chief Arvind Kejriwal today said that he will complain to the Election Commission against the BJP for allegedly attacking his community in an advertisement.
"BJP in the past few days has been giving few advertisements personally attacking me. They attacked me and my children, I kept quiet because Anna used to say that if someone personally attacks you, you should have the strength to bear it. But today they have crossed their limit," he told reporters.
"They have called the entire community 'updravi'. BJP's fight is with me, whatever they have to say they should say it against me, they should not attack the entire Aggarwal community," he said.
The BJP advertisement targets Kejriwal for threatening to disrupt the Republic Day parade last year while complaining this year that he was not been invited for the event.
"Desh ke karodon log gantantra divas ko rashtriya parv mante hain, us par garv karte hain (The country's crores of people consider Republic Day as a national festival and feel proud about it). Aur apka updravi gotra isme vyavdhan dalne ko taiyar tha (And your trouble maker community was ready to disrupt it).
"This is unacceptable and they should apologise from the entire community. We will complain to EC that BJP has stooped down to racial attacks. Delhi's people do not like this abusive politics," Kejriwal said.
The AAP chief also called a meeting of top party leaders at his residence to deliberate on the issue.
AAP leader Ashutosh came down heavily on the BJP, saying people will teach the saffron party a lesson in the upcoming Delhi Assembly elections.
"BJP stooped another low. Now it has attacked Kejriwal's GOTRA in today's advertisement. People belonging to his GOTRA will teach BJP Lesson (sic)," he said on micro-blogging site on Twitter.
Kejriwal has often described himself as a "baniya" to reach out to traders' community, which have traditionally supported BJP.
The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) last week also took a swipe at the BJP for its newspaper advertisement in which Anna Hazare's sketch was shown with a garland, asking the saffron party whether it had had "killed" the veteran anti-corruption crusader.
AAP leaders Kumar Viswas and Yogendra Yadav also slammed BJP for the controversial advertisement.
"I am sure public will give an appropriate answer to this personalised attack by BJP on February 7. Now that they are targeting him by attacking his gotra, it only shows that they have the same mentality as Sakshi Maharaj and the so called Sadhvi," Viswas told reporters.
Yogendra Yadav pointed out that EC should have seen the advertisement before it went to print.
"As per the rules, EC has to approve any advertisement before it goes to print. We will ask the EC if they had seen the advertisement," he said.
"I feel if BJP will give one such low-grade advertisement every day and one interview of Kiran Bedi live on TV, half of our campaigning job will be done.
The remaining half we will complete by telling people about our plan of action for reducing electricity, water tariffs and dealing with other issues. So, I am in a way thankful to them.
"There was lot of hue and cry when Arvind Kejriwal had called himself a 'baniya'. I want to see what will be the reaction to this advertisement now," added Yadav.
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MILAN, DXB
Mon, Feb 02 2015ONE THING IS SURE, KEJRIWAL IS NOT CORRUPT POLITICIAN.
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Vellano1, Mumbai
Mon, Feb 02 2015Mainakke also feels the same about pappu "My son is MOST INTELLIGENT"!! Soch ne mein kya problem hai? vhe vhe vhe
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Karan, Katapadi/Dubai
Mon, Feb 02 2015AK is honest politician.. He is fighting for the common man... Hope all Delhi public support him for his cause and soon the Lokpal will be implemented and so as Swaraj.
If the public dont support him, they are the one who support from Corrupt BJP or Congress politicians...
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Elroy Karkala, Karkala
Mon, Feb 02 2015India me jo Dikta hai wo bikta hai. Indians dont use own brains. Kejriwal is not a saint but he is far better than others. But the comments here show that the media is done so much and people believe it. Crabs wont allow other crab to come out. If somebody wants stand the others will pull. This fits to Indians very well. Anywhere they go, they will try to pull other Indians. Indians enemy is Indian. I donno how far Kejriwal will move but in Indians wont allow him to do what is aiming for. He will be axed soon.
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JK, Udupi
Mon, Feb 02 2015If he is honest, why did he campaigned against corrupt Congress and took the support from same party to become CM?. Opportunist?.
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Shankar, Mangalore
Mon, Feb 02 2015People are suffering from ive dumbness.
When someone says 'your creed', it does only mean 'your kind of people'.
'Upadravi Gothra' means troble creating kejrival and like minded ones. Where is the mention of Agarwal Community?
Whwn Modi said 'We will be hurt even if a puppy falls under our car and dies'. People started interpreting that he is comparing Gujarat riot victims to puppies!
Is this ive dumbness or ive intelligence?
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Raj-Talk-Ray, Mumbai
Mon, Feb 02 2015bohut say rajneta dekkhya hai but kejrivalji nobody can get much lower than you
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Valerian, Dubai/Mangalore
Mon, Feb 02 2015Aravind Kejriwal is Aravind Kejriwal...Nobody now in BJP or Congress to compare with this man..! Being in politics one has to do some noise and beat the drums..and he is doing that. We are used to that noise and drum beats..The louder you beat, more votes you get...Carry on Mr.Kejriwal...some of us are ther with you.....
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vellano1, Mumbai
Mon, Feb 02 2015AAPHOLE logic at its best! he is getting wrapped on the knuckles by twitter agarwals! this is his "CLEAN AND DIFFERENT POLITICS"! finally same run-dee rona dhona! he is behaving just like those charlie hebdo attackers, who cant tolerate cartoons! Thank God RK Laxman was inactive when AAP started, else he would have called him "AMBANI AGENT, SAFFRON TERRORIST" and what not!
the day he said "EVM can be rigged and complain to polling officer" itself, it was evident he will LOSE and AAP has no chance! but here even if they are "CASTEIST remarks" (when they are not), he calls them racial?" and where was he when his Porn minister Somnaath Bharti called African ladies racial slur..? he defended him! Nasty guy! this is what he wanted to a be different party? You are an anarchist, a Upadravi gotra that was characteristic of ASURAs who used to harm the Sadhu Sant doing Havan- by throwing muck and meat! You are just that, Kejriwal! dont bring in your community into it!
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clvie, Kuwait
Mon, Feb 02 2015You remember only what Somnath Bharti said about African nationals? What about BJP's Goa minister equating Nigerian nationals with cancer?
AAP had made the mistake earlier but this time they will surely take Delhi because Kejriwal can surely walk the talk unlike Kiran Bedi who cannot deliver. You can surely sense her nervousness when she took some questions from a NDTV reporter.
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Vellano1, Mumbai
Mon, Feb 02 2015read more about Somnath Bharti! he operates 100s of porn sites and has registered sites! It is just plain lucky that he was Congressi before, so no case on him and he is on lease basis to AAP!
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N.M, Mangalore
Mon, Feb 02 2015hmmmm. before spreading lies about congress and AAP. you must see the rapist nihalchand who is being looked after like a pet dog by his master fenku and what about those sadhvis who want to produce 4 - 10 babies?
'Bhakt'ards go and get a life!!
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N.M, Mangalore
Mon, Feb 02 2015Also, do you want to know which big bjp leader was a p!mp earlier? do you know which bjp leader from Mangalore was caught watching blue film? do you want to know which leader was caught in bombay with a hooker?
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CONRAD JOHN TAURO, SHIRVA/UDUPI/DUBAI
Mon, Feb 02 2015Famous For Snoop And Stoop...
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Ramesh S, mangalore
Mon, Feb 02 2015..KUJLI will loose the case..where his community dragged in the advt!!..it says AAP is upadravi community, its true & its proven..AAP acting like rattled rat..
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Vinay, Kallamundkur/Dubai
Mon, Feb 02 2015Ramesh S, mangaloreMonday, February 02, 2015
..KUJLI will loose the case..where his community dragged in the advt!!..it says AAP is upadravi community, its true & its proven..AAP acting like rattled rat..
Dear Mr. Ramesh S, Please wait till Feb 10. You will come to know who is real rattlesnake...!
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Oliver Machado, Udupi - Sharjah
Mon, Feb 02 2015Very impressed when Arvind Kejriwal commented on women's safety and said every women should feel free to travel alone anytime anywhere in Delhi without fear that she is a woman.And he will assure that safety and right to the women in Delhi.All know only Kejriwal is upright and never fails in his promise.Every antics of BJP will fail and most people have realized only Kejriwal is a democratic leader who can bring progress in the entire country as a leader.
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Deshpremi, Mangalore
Mon, Feb 02 2015Mr.Kejariwal
You are the only one politician in India who can bring changes to our country, for that you require to have a full majority government by your own party rather than taking support from other corrupt political parties.
But to achieve this you have face giant politicians who are strong with money and muscle power.For power they can go any extent.
We all Indians wish you for the best success.
We hope you will get majority to form your own government and flush out all these dirty political power hungers.
As a Deshpremi i prefer to support Shri Arawind because we have seen what "Badlao" in last year by the amount spent on Obama visit and corruption in previous 10 years.
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Zakaria, Ganjimatt
Mon, Feb 02 2015wow its an excellent comment
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Daniel, Mangalore
Mon, Feb 02 2015Rightly said dear Deshpremi, Mangalore:
I endorse and do not hesitate to support just for CHANGE from oldies.
I hope retirement age for politicians is FIXED soon not more than 63 or 65 years.
Governors to be max. 60years and not as of now....
I remember the beautiful song
subko ne KOOB kiya, dekh bi liya ab hai munni sorry AAP ki hai baari.
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Vincent Rodrigues, Frazer Town,B'lore 560005
Mon, Feb 02 2015BJP is always have upper hands in defending itself by accusing others.
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Jossey Saldanha, Mumbai
Mon, Feb 02 2015Modi has already PANICKED ...
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N.M, Mangalore
Mon, Feb 02 2015These are cheap attacks by BJP.
BJP has no agenda, no manifesto, no achievements to shows off despite 9 months in power.
Hence it is resorting to lies, personal attacks and propaganda.
Shame of BJP and fenku....a Party of liars who fooled 30% Indians. successfully.
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