New Delhi: A toddler dressed as Arvind Kejriwal in his famed ‘muffler look’ made his presence felt at the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) office. A photo of him in the Kejriwal get-up was later tweeted from the official handle of AAP, going viral. Last seen, the photo was retweeted over 2,400 times and garnered over 17,000 likes.
AAP has won 62 out of 70 seats while BJP won in eight.
Packed with party supporters in celebratory mood from 9 am onwards, when early trends gave a massive lead to AAP, the toddler, Avyaan Tomar, was seen in the arms of his father Rahul Tomar at around 10 am. He immediately caught the attention of mediapersons, who were present in considerable numbers at the party’s headquarters on Delhi’s Deen Dayal Upadhyay Marg.
Media persons and AAP supporters fussed over ‘Baby Kejriwal’ flaunting a pair of glasses, a moustache, an AAP topi and a black muffler to complete Kejriwal’s winter look.
The boy’s father, a local businessman and a party supporter, also donned the white topi with ‘Main Aam Aadmi hoon’ written on it. After first posing with his son, he later put the boy on the ground, with at least a dozen camera clicking into action around him.
During the swearing-in ceremony of Kejriwal at the Ramlila grounds after the 2015 win, Tomar’s daughter, Fairy, too dressed up as Kejriwal with a muffler and glasses. Rahul Tomar’s wife Meenakshi then said PTI, “I want my daughter to become like Kejriwal and have the same qualities that he has — honesty, integrity, compassion…. We used to bring her to Anna Hazare’s rally and when Kejriwal came to the forefront of anti-graft struggle, we made our daughter the mascot of the effort.”