NEW DELHI: Actor-politician Prakash Raj announced on Saturday that he will begin a week-long campaign for the AAP candidates in Delhi.“I am very happy, proud and I feel meaningful in this journey in Indian politics to be with AAP. I am not from the Aam Aadmi Party, but I am one of those Aam Aadmi which look up to the ideology and the work done by this party and this is what brought me here,” the actor from South told media persons.Raj said he would extend his support to all candidates and parties which “fights” for a change in this election.
“This is what we need, this is my gesture, and my belief, that different people with different thought processes but love for the country come together to make this democracy, to reclaim our republic which is on the verge that we may lose with the onslaught of communal and hatred politics of the government which is in place,” he asserted.
Voting in Delhi will take place on May 12.Senior APP leader Gopal Rai announced that Raj will begin his Delhi campaign from the North East Lok Sabha constituency on Saturday evening with a meeting in support of AAP candidate Dilip Pandey at Baburpur.
On Sunday, the actor-cum-activist will campaign in New Delhi and East Delhi constituencies.Raj has contested as an independent candidate from the Bengaluru Central Lok Sabha constituency this year. Besides AAP, Raj has extended support to former JNUSU president Kanhaiya Kumar, who is the CPI candidate at Begusarai.
“As I Campaign for @kanhaiyakumar through Rajora...meghaul... manjhaul...in #begusarai ... I can feel the WINDS OF CHANGE ..I can see HOPE in their eyes ... and I’m ASSURED of #citizensvoice in parliament,” he had tweeted.Not one to take trolls lying down, the actor is a vocal critic of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the Right-wing politics. Raj’s criticism of Prime Minister Modi’s “silence” on the ‘’celebration’’ of the death of journalist Gauri Lankesh has drawn equal share of bouquets and brickbats from across the country.