Now, AAP can probably make its own comedy club
New Delhi, Feb 11 : Taking a political flight is comedian Gurpreet Ghuggi who joined the Aam Aadmi Party ( AAP ) yesterday. Ghuggi will be the second stand up comedian after Bhagwant Mann to join the party.AAP’s first stand-up comedian Bhagwant Mann joined the party in 2014 and contested from Sangrur constituency in Punjab.
He defeated Sukhdev Singh Dhindsa, a prominent leader of Shiromani Akali Dal and won by 2,00,000 votes in the 2014 general election. His comic timing and skill of satire has come handy in raising issues faced by the common man. His ‘grilling speech’ on Modi’s ‘ache din’ was high on rhetoric, yet questioned the government’s plans.
Another light-hearted feather in Kejriwal’s hat is Javed Jaffrey.
He joined AAP in March 2014 and contested against BJP’s national President Rajnath Singh in the general election of 2014 from the Lucknow constituency. Probably Kejriwal tried changing the electoral choreography by placing a Muslim candidate in Lucknow but that made no difference and Jaffrey ended up finishing 5th in the constituency securing only 41,429 votes.
There was another controversy revolving Jaffrey’s nomination and voter registration. AAP made Adarsh Shastri file his nomination as a covering candidate just in case if Javed’s nomination gets rejected.