At Benra village in Punjab’s Dhuri, as a group of residents eagerly awaits AAP’s chief ministerial face Bhagwant Mann to stop by on his campaign trail, a budding singer sings for them, asking for votes for the party to “save” the State.
Outside the Benra Cooperative Agricultural Service Society office in the village, elderly male villagers sitting on a cemented floor and women, some along with kids, on a cotton carpet laid on the road listen to a local AAP leader slamming political rivals for “looting” the State over the last several years.
“ Oh Jatta, vote [Bhagwant] Mann nu pa deen, Je Punjab bachauna hai [farmer, vote for Bhagwant Mann if Punjab is to be saved],” the 19-year-old singer goes on, seeking to highlight corruption, rising debt and the drug menace in the State.
