Saved the best for the last: Kejriwal fires Lokpal, Swaraj ammo

This season, Kejriwal’s campaigns were largely devoid of its mention. Till now.

On Wednesday, he mocked concerns that the party had “forgotten” about the Bills and said, “We have a dream that we will make Delhi the first corruption-free city in India, and only we have an antidote. Do you remember what we had started at Ramlila Maidan? When our government comes to power, the Jan Lokpal Bill will be passed. Many in the media keep telling us that we have forgotten, but we kept the most important for the last,” he said.

At a jansabha in Mandawali, Patparganj, with chief aide and Patparganj candidate Manish Sisodia by his side, Kejriwal also spoke of the Swaraj Bill.

“During the MLA’s tenure, every representative spent money according to how the people wanted it spent. It is only when the people of an area said they were satisfied with the work, that payments were made to a contractor. We will make Swaraj a law, and make it essential for every MLA to ask people on where money should be spent. When we achieved independence from the British, we didn’t fight just to be colonised by our own again,” he said, in a hark back to speeches he made at the Ramlila Maidan in August 2012.

Kejriwal said the AAP would also look to bring governance to mobile phones and the internet.

“All of you have to run around for accounts and other government work. We promise that all of this will be at your command — on your computers and mobile phones. It takes six months for people if they want to open a business. The AAP government will get it done in 15 days. If that doesn’t happen, you come to my office and I will get it done personally,” Kejriwal said in Patparganj, appealing to it considerable trader population.