Aam Admi Party (AAP) spokesperson Priyanka Kakkar said on Wednesday that she would prefer party convenor and Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal to be the alliance’s prime ministerial candidate, throwing the cat among the pigeons ahead of the third meeting of the opposition bloc, the Indian National Developmental Inclusive Alliance (INDIA).
On Wednesday, Kakkar said, “If you ask me, I would want Arvind Kejriwal to be the Prime Ministerial candidate (of the Opposition alliance).”
She added that the AAP convenor has been highlighting issues of the public and has emerged as a credible challenger to Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s hold on the country’s highest office. “Be it the PM’s academic records or qualifications or any other issue, Arvind Kejriwal has been putting across his views boldly on myriad subjects,” Kakkar told .
The AAP leader asserted that INDIA was working to steer the country in a new direction even as her remark threatened to rock the Opposition boat ahead of the Mumbai meeting, which begins later on Wednesday and lasts through Thursday. She asserted that despite rising prices for necessities like food and clothing, inflation is “lowest” in the nation’s capital. “Our government offers free water, free electricity, free electricity for education, free bus rides for women, and free elderly pilgrimage. The budget we presented was still in surplus. The AAP spokesperson continued, “He (Kejriwal) raises people’s issues and has emerged as a challenger (to PM Narendra Modi).