Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal has promised Punjab voters 300 models of free electrical energy (File)
Chandigarh:
Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal will kickstart the Aam Aadmi Get together’s ‘Mission Punjab’ marketing campaign on Saturday throughout a one-day go to to Moga district, the social gathering’s state unit chief, Bhagwant Mann, stated.
The Lok Sabha MP from Sangrur, Mann stated the AAP was engaged on a “complete roadmap by holding numerous conferences”, which is able to embody Arvind Kejriwal, the social gathering’s Nationwide Convener, visiting a number of villages and interacting with residents to know their issues.
Mann stated Kejriwal shall be “totally on tour in Punjab and can go to a number of locations”.
In September the social gathering’s state unit sailed into hassle after Mann’s supporters demanded he be projected because the chief ministerial candidate. The social gathering has but to take a name on the problem
The AAP final week launched a primary record of 10 candidates.
Final month Kejriwal was within the state’s Mansa district, the place he promised to make farming a worthwhile career and stated no Punjab farmer would die by suicide if his social gathering is voted to energy.
“Punjab has the required infrastructure to develop an agro-based trade however attributable to ill-intentions of the current or previous authorities, these couldn’t be delivered,” he declared.
Kejriwal slammed his rivals for first mocking the AAP’s promise of free energy, higher well being companies and improved faculties (guarantees made forward of its victory in Delhi) after which copying them.
He has already promised Punjab voters 300 models of free electrical energy – the identical as in Delhi – though he adopted that with a caveat – that it might take as much as three years for this to occur.
Different freebies supplied by the AAP in Punjab embody 25 lakh jobs, meals for Rs 5, free Wi-Fi and outdated age pensions, in addition to efforts to deal with the drug drawback.
Punjab votes subsequent yr – one among seven states scheduled to carry Meeting elections in 2022. The others embody Prime Minister Modi’s dwelling state of Gujarat and the politically essential state of Uttar Pradesh, which can present perception into which manner voters will swing within the 2024 normal election.
The build-up to the Punjab election has been marked by a large management disaster inside the ruling Congress, which has misplaced veteran chief Amarinder Singh – each as Chief Minister and from the social gathering.
Mr Singh stop as Chief Minister in October after weeks and months of needling by rival Navjot Sidhu, who’s now the social gathering’s state chief and is now feuding with the brand new Chief Minister, Charanjit Channi, leaving the Congress’ senior management with vital challenges because it plans its re-election marketing campaign.
The AAP – which received 20 seats in 2017 to emerge as the principle opposition social gathering – is hoping to capitalise on the Congress’ issues and win exterior Delhi for the primary time in its comparatively quick historical past.
In 2017 the Congress – led by Amarinder Singh – received an absolute majority by successful 77 seats (within the 117-member home) and ousted the Akali Dal-BJP authorities that had been in energy for 10 years.
The Akalis and the BJP have since cut up – over the farmers’ protests in opposition to the farm legal guidelines.
