"Come Home For A Meal": Arvind Kejriwal to Dalit Worker In Gujarat
NDTV
Harsh Solanki, who is a civic employee in Ahmedabad, will visit Delhi tomorrow with his family. Arvind Kejriwal will bear the costs. The family will stay in Punjab Bhavan.
Aam Aadmi Party chief Arvind Kejriwal stepped up his Gujarat campaign today, inviting a sanitation worker to dine at his home in Delhi. The invitation came during his townhall with sanitation workers. This is another working-class group the AAP chief is focussing on after three-wheeler and taxi drivers -- a strategy that had paid off for the party in Delhi and Punjab.
Harsh Solanki, who is a civic employee in Ahmedabad, will visit Delhi tomorrow with his family. Mr Kejriwal will bear the costs. The family will stay in Punjab Bhavan -- the embassy of another AAP-ruled state -- in Delhi.
"Sir I have a request. The way you came to Delhi last time and had a meal at the home of an auto-driver, will you come to the home of someone from the Valmiki community and have a meal?" Mr Solanki had said during the townhall.
"Harsh I will definitely come to your home. But before that, I have a suggestion. Will you accept," Mr Kejriwal said. When Mr Solanki agreed, Mr Kejriwal said, "I have seen ahead of elections, all leaders go to the home of Dalits and have food. But to date, no leader has invited a Dalit to his home. So will you come to my home for a meal?"
