Kumar Vishwas Does AAP A Solid, Delivers Viral Song For Punjab Campaign

New Delhi: Aam Aadmi Party leader Kumar Vishwas’ new song released this week on YouTube, signals how the party will target the ruling Akali Dal in Punjab, where elections are due early next year.

Mr Vishwas, who has written, composed and sung the song, highlights the drug problem that plagues Punjab and, in a play of words, targets the Badals who rule the state at the head of the Akali Dal-BJP government.

The song, released on May 8, has gone viral, viewed 32,000 times at the time of writing this. AAP chief and Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal has given it a “Must Watch” rating as he shared it on Twitter.

“The Badals have ruined our roads, canals and mined all our sand from rivers,” sings Kumar Vishwas in Punjabi and also, “Oh Jat, Shun Drugs, Your Little Daughter Appeals To You.” The video features lookalikes of Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal and his son and Deputy Sukhbir Badal.

“It is wrong to project the Jat community as drug addicts. Had they been so… how is that we produce so much foodgrain for the country? AAP is known for all this,” said Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal.

Sources in the Akali Dal said the party could sue AAP and Kumar Vishwas for maligning the Badals.Sucha Singh Chotepur, a senior AAP leader in Punjab dismissed the threat saying, “The Badals are trying to make it an issue to save themselves from embarrassment.”

After sweeping Delhi last year, Arvind Kejriwal’s AAP is eyeing Punjab, which gave the party its four seats in the Lok Sabha in the 2014 general elections. The drug menace is a big election issue and AAP is seeking to displace the Congress as the chief challenger to the Badal government.