File Image of AAP chief and Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal | Photo Credit: PTI

New Delhi: Taking a potshot at Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s ‘Main Bhi Chowkidar’ campaign, Delhi Chief Minister and Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) chief Arvind Kejriwal on Wednesday said that the former wants to make the entire country into ‘chowkidar’ (watchman).

Prime Minister Modi recently launched the campaign on social media and added the ‘chowkidar’ prefix to his Twitter name. Several BJP leaders including party president Amit Shah and Railway minister Piyush Goyal also followed the suit and changed their Twitter names, adding 'chowkidar' as a prefix.

The AAP chief poked fun at the campaign in a tweet, saying, "Modi ji wants to make the entire country into chowkidars. If you want to see your children as chowkidars then vote for Modi ji. But if you want to make your children a doctor, engineer and lawyer by giving them good education, then you should vote for the party of educated and honest people, the Aam Aadmi Party.”

मोदी जी पूरे देश को चोकीदार बनाना चाहते हैं।



अगर आप भी अपने बच्चों को चोकीदार बनाना चाहते हैं तो मोदी जी को वोट दें।



पर अगर आप अपने बच्चों को अच्छी शिक्षा देकर डाक्टर, इंजीनियर, वक़ील बनाना चाहते हैं तो पढ़े लिखे ईमानदार लोगों की पार्टी आम आदमी पार्टी को वोट दें — Arvind Kejriwal (@ArvindKejriwal) March 20, 2019

Not only Kejriwal, but several other opposition leaders ridiculed the BJP’s campaign launched on Saturday in the run-up to the Lok Sabha elections 2019.

The Congress party took to Twitter to slam BJP, saying, "Important message to Modi: #IndiaBewakoofNahiHai sabko pata hai you are the one & only #SuitBootKaChowkidaar." (India is not foolish, everyone knows that you are the one and only suit and boot chowkidaar).

Congress general secretary Priyanka Gandhi also criticised the campaign during her recent Ganga yatra in Uttar Pradesh and said: “(Unki [Prime Minister] marzi apne naam ke aage kya lagaen. Mujhe ek kisan bhai ne kaha ki 'dekhiye chowkidaar to ameeron ke hote hain, hum kisan to apne khud chowkidaar hote hain.(This is his personal choice as to what he wants to add before his name. A farmer told me that ‘chowkidars are for rich not farmers, we farmers are our own chowkidars’.”

Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav and Bahujan Samja Party supremo Mayawati also mocked the campaign, calling PM Modi ‘laparwah’ (careless).

The seven-phased Lok Sabha elections will be held from April 11 to May 19 and counting of votes will be conducted on May 23.