All of 18, Lambi girl stands tall as AAP star campaigner

Archit Watts

Tribune News Service

Lambi, January 21

At 18, this student of BSc (first year) is taking the centre stage during various political programmes of the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) in this constituency, thanks to her oratorical skills.

Navjot Kaur Lambi, daughter of a marginal farmer of Kheowali village (near Badal village), delivers a fiery speech for about eight minutes. Each time, she gets a good response from the public. Her speaking skills have made her a star campaigner for AAP nominee Jarnail Singh. She already has about 15,000 followers on her Facebook page.

Due to her rising popularity, especially among the youth, she even gets special time to address the public, and that too in the presence of Jarnail Singh and AAPnational convener Arvind Kejriwal. Yesterday, she was given a slot to address the gathering at Lambi village during Kejriwal’s rally.

In an interaction with The Tribune, Navjot said: “I belong to a non-political family. Nobody drafts my speech. It is God’s gift that I can easily speak on issues related to Punjab for 10 minutes. My regular participation in declamation competitions during school days has stood me in good stead.”

About her turning an AAP supporter, she said: “I was inspired by the Jan Lokpal movement and started following the party about one-and-a-half-years ago.”

Her speech, in chaste Punjabi, mainly focuses on bashing the Badals and PPCC chief Capt Amarinder Singh.

She starts her speech highlighting the problems being faced by the youth, the country’s freedom movement, and then targets the state leaders over patronage to the mining mafia. She also refers to stories narrated by her grandparents to keep the audience engrossed.

She is also at home while speaking on sensitive issues such as the 1984 anti-Sikh riots, incidents of desecration of Guru Granth Sahib and farmer suicides.