Chandigarh, March 2
Riding on the legacy of her comedian-actor-director husband, Jaspal Bhatti, the Aam Admi Party (AAP) candidate, Savita Bhatti, today kicked off her campaign for the Chandigarh Lok Sabha seat from Sector 17 here.
After performing a brief ceremony at the Sector 17 Plaza, where she often used to enact spoofs along with her late husband on major social issues, Savita said: "I am not a politician, I will never be a politician. The AAP has given me a platform to fight against the issues which me and my husband were highlighting for long."
Not denying that the rapport which her husband made with the masses through TV shows would benefit her during her campaign, she said she would be talking of the common man and their issues.
"I would not be talking of what other parties are doing and what all they had promised, I would talk about what all I can do," she said. adding that the main agenda would be corruption and social issues.
On being asked about Chandigarh-specific issues, she said she would talking in detail about the same in the coming days.
A senior member of the AAP said Savita Bhatti would be instrumental in roping in Bollywood personalities to add colour.
AAP in charge, Haryana, Rajeev Godara, who was accompanying Savita, said the selection of candidates had been on a merit basis. He dismissed that there was any differences over the selection of candidates.
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