Kumar Vishwas is radiating intense feels with his song for the Punjab polls

Singer turned politician, Aam Aadmi Party leader Kumar Vishwas released a song earlier this week, signalling the tone of AAP’s campaign in Punjab. The video for “Ek Nasha” begins with shots of barren land, a seemingly depressed farmer sitting near the hand-pump near his field. Then, the camera pans to Vishwas bemoaning the ruin of agriculture in Punjab, all thanks to the “Badals”. No, he’s not wagging his finger at clouds. This is a pun, y’all, because who’s the chief minister of Punjab? Parkash Singh…? You guessed it. Badal!

As the man in the video walks across his field, shoulders bowed down, Vishwas can be heard crooning in the background, “Khet kha gaye Badal”. (“The Badals have eaten up our farmland.”) Then, Vishwas turns his attention to the rampant drug problem in Punjab, blaming the police and the government for being invested in the racket. A policeman taking a bribe, a man who looks remarkably like Badal accepting a shady black suitcase (full of money, presumably), a young boy dying because of an overdose and various newspaper clippings – all to underscore how entrenched the drug racket is in Punjab.

Vishwas’s main call for action is asking the “jatta” to give up on drugs, for the sake of his guddiya (“daughter”). In case anyone lacks imagination, we’re shown a shot of a little girl playing hopscotch, waiting for her father to come home. Then comes the final pitch: Vishwas, who looks soulfully into the camera every now and then, asks the jatta to reclaim the jhaddoo (“broom”) and sweep the state clean.  And whose election symbol is the broom? AAP, of course. The video ends with the jatta picking up the broom of change and a shot of the daughter. *Insert feels*