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AAP nominee pays 20,000 coins of 50 paise as security deposit

Indeed, Gor and his friends went around several temples and mosques in the constituency for several days to collect 20,000 coins which were counted by election officials only after two and a half hours.

If Narendra Modi kept a tea vendor by his side to represent his own humble beginnings while filing his nomination papers for the upcoming Lok Sabha elections recently in Vadodara, an Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) candidate for assembly by-polls in Gujarat paid his security deposit of Rs10,000 in an unusual way to symbolise his party’s preference for the man on the street.

Rohit Gor, AAP contsetant from the Abdasa assembly constituency of Kutch district where by-elections are to be held on April 30, and his three supporters landed at the collector’s office in Bhuj, each of them carrying a sack of 20,000 coins of 50 paise. “Thanks to policies of the Congress and the Bharatiya Janata Party, the common man has been of insignificant value just like the fate of the small change of 50 paise in these days of spiralling prices.

And Gor wanted to convey exactly that”, Gujarat AAP media in-charge Harshil Nayak told Khaleej Times. He said Gor did not intend to harass government officials by depositing 20,000 coins but just wanted to make a statement in his own unique way that just as a 50-paise coin is discarded by people despite being a valid currency, the plight of the common man is no different.

Indeed, Gor and his friends went around several temples and mosques in the constituency for several days to collect 20,000 coins which were counted by election officials only after two and a half hours.

— mahesh@khaleejtimes.com