Arvind Kejriwal At Hanuman Temple For Divine Aid As Delhi Readies To Vote

New Delhi:

Delhi Leader Minister Arvind Kejriwal and BJP MP Manoj Tiwari spent the hours earlier than vote casting starts on Saturday morning in the hunt for last-minute divine intervention and assist from above. The 2, who’ve waged a sour battle on social media whilst campaigning for Meeting elections within the nationwide capital, each and every visited a Hanuman temple this night time; Mr Kejriwal was once noticed on the temple in Connaught Position in Central Delhi and Mr Tiwari was once noticed at a temple in Kalkaji in South Delhi.

Mr Kejriwal’s consult with comes days after he informed a tv information channel that he’s a “Hanuman bhakt“, a declare for which he was once promptly targeted by the BJP’s Yogi Adityanath and Prakash Javadekar. The AAP leader claimed to be an ordinary customer and recited a devotional hymn in entrance of a cheering target market.

On Thursday, Mr Javadekar tweeted in reaction. “AAP is in hassle in Delhi elections, so Arvind Kejriwal is now remembering the “Sankat Mochan,”, the Union Minister wrote in an acerbic tweet, tagging House Minister Amit Shah, amongst others.

“Sankat Mochan” is regularly referred to Lord Hanuman by way of the Hindus, who consider that the recitation of the “Hanuman Chalisa” acts as a protect in opposition to any roughly disaster.

Mr Kejriwal’s declaration got here after the BJP introduced wave after wave of vitriolic assaults at the Leader Minister, labelling him a “terrorist” and accusing his govt of supporting anti-citizenship law protesters at Shaheen Bagh.

BJP MP Manoj Tiwari was once noticed at a Hanuman temple in Kalkaji in South Delhi

The BJP has sought to make the Shaheen Bagh protests the focus of its marketing campaign, arguing that the weeks-long non violent agitation in opposition to a legislation noticed as discriminating in opposition to Muslims and violating secular tenets of the Charter is a threat to nationwide safety.

On Thursday Union Minister Giriraj Singh lashed out and mentioned Shaheen Bagh had grow to be a breeding ground for suicide bombers plotting against the country.

Any other BJP chief – parliamentarian Parvesh Sahib Singh Verma – made in a similar fashion stunning remarks; he mentioned: “They (the protesters) will input your properties, rape your sisters and daughters, kill them“.

Mr Verma, at the side of Leader Minister Adityanath, Union Minister of State Anurag Thakur and BJP chief Sambit Patra, have all come beneath the scrutiny of the Election Fee for hate speeches concentrated on Mr Kejriwal and the Shaheen Bagh protesters.

Over 200 girls have participated in a weeks-long, sit-in protest at Shaheen Bagh in opposition to the citizenship legislation

Mr Kejriwal’s reaction – his consult with to the Hanuman Temple – has been noticed by way of many as a “brilliant counter-strategy to the BJP’s politics of Hindutva”.

On Wednesday he additionally took a swipe at those that attacked him for reciting the hymn, announcing: “Me reading the Hanuman Chalisa is hurting BJP leaders“.

Delhi votes for its 70-member Assembly on Saturday, with effects due 3 days later.

The AAP, lately in energy, is hoping to copy its efficiency from 2015; it gained 67 seats, leaving best 3 for the BJP and none for a Congress that had prior to now been in energy for 15 directly years.

With enter from ANI, IANS