A few days into the campaign for the Delhi Assembly election, the Aam Aadmi Party had its Sidharth Malhotra moment. Its rival, the Bharatiya Janata Party, denounced a series of videos posted by AAP and its leaders mocking the BJP's Delhi unit chief Manoj Tiwari as an attack on Bhojpuri language and Purvanchali ethos.
Apart from the contentious videos, Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal also took potshots at one of Tiwari’s playful Bhojpuri numbers, Rinkiya ke Papa. If the AAP chief’s intention was to show Tiwari as a non-serious and coarse politician, AAP’s approach reeked of metropolitan bias similar to what is apparent in a short commercial for Cadbury Fuse chocolate.
