Kejriwal to hold interactive 'Talk to AK' programme tomorrow

Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal will hold an interactive session, titled 'Talk to AK', tomorrow where people from across the country can ask him questions over phone, by sending text messages and through social media.
The move, intended to reach out to people across the country, comes at a time when his Aam Aadmi Party is gearing up for Assembly elections in a number of states including Goa, Punjab and Gujarat.
The Chief Minister will hold the hour-long live session tomorrow at 11 AM and take their questions through Twitter, Facebook, phone calls and text messages. The government has made arrangements at Delhi Secretariat from where Kejriwal will interact with people.

The government has launched a dedicated website - 'talktoak.Com' - through which people can ask questions directly. They can also ask questions by dialing 011-23392999.
If 'Talk to AK' gets good response from people it will be held every month, an official said.
"We have received thousands of questions through messages and social media in the last few days. The Chief Minister will answer people's questions. Music composer Vishal Dadlani will moderate the hour-long session," a government spokesperson said.

To a question on whether the programme is on the line of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's monthly radio programme 'Maan ki Baat', he said it is a different programme where Kejriwal will take people's questions directly.

"Gujarat government is challenging people that if you
raise voice against us, we will not spare you, will trample you, shoot you," Kajriwal said.
"Last month, we saw how in Una four Dalits were thrashed in front of a police station. Police did nothing. Because those who were beating him were BJP's goons, and police have a direction not to act against the BJP goons," he alleged.
"I would like to congratulate the Dalit community, and Jignesh Mevani (a dalit leader) for mobilising the community," he said.
Giving the example of Delhi, where AAP rose to power after crushing Congress, and also making clear his party's intent to fight elections in Gujarat, Kejriwal said with the support of common people, defeat BJP and Congress can be defeated.

"After next year elections in Gujarat, aam aadmi will sit in the Gujarat assembly as MLAs and not the members of BJP and Congress," he said, adding that to realise it party workers will have to work hard.
The AAP national convener said, "BJP and Congress are no different...They are like husband and wife. I have come to know that (PM) Narendra Modi and Ahmed Patel (political advisior to Congress President Sonia Gandhi) work in unison.