Playing the “Hindu card” ahead of the crucial Gujarat Assembly elections and throwing a challenge to the ruling BJP in the state, Aam Aadmi Party convener and Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal today demanded that the Centre should print images of Goddess Lakshmi and Lord Ganesha on new currency notes to bring “economic prosperity to 130 crore Indians”.
The BJP leadership dubbed the demand as an “unsuccessful attempt to hide AAP’s ugly anti-Hindu face” and claimed that the only aim was to woo the voters in poll-bound Himachal Pradesh and Gujarat.
Maintaining that the Indian economy was not in a good shape, Kejriwal, at a press conference, said the country needed a lot of efforts to get the economy back on track along with the “blessings of our gods and goddesses”. “Today, I am appealing to Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the Union Government that Mahatma Gandhi’s image on one side of the currency notes should remain as it is but on the other side, there should be an image of Lord Ganesha and Goddess Lakshmi,” the Delhi Chief Minister said.