AAP Focal point On Gujarat Subsequent, Arvind Kejriwal, Bhagwant Mann In Ahmedabad
Arvind Kejriwal had declared closing yr that AAP will contest all 182 meeting seats in Gujarat.
New Delhi:
Arvind Kejriwal’s Aam Aadmi Party, upbeat over its sweeping victory in Punjab and a foothold in Goa, is taking a 2d shot at Gujarat, the place elections are due later this yr. The party has deliberate a sequence of programmes beginning the next day within the state, which has been dominated by way of the BJP since 1995.
The Delhi Leader Minister and his Punjab counterpart Bhagwant Mann have already reached Ahmedabad on a two-day talk over with.
The next day to come they’ll talk over with the Sabarmati Ashram after which hang a two-kilometre roadshow, which the party is asking “Tiranga Yatra”. On Sunday, a talk over with to Ahmedabad’s Swaminarayan Temple has been scheduled.
In gentle of latest assault on Mr Kejriwal’s place of abode in Delhi, AAP’s Gujarat unit has requested the Ahmedabad police leader to take further measures for security and safety of the 2 leaders.
Mr Kejriwal had declared closing yr that AAP will contest all 182 meeting seats in Gujarat.
The party had additionally carried out smartly within the native our bodies elections held in March closing yr. AAP received 42 seats — 31 seats in Taluka Panchayats, 9 in municipalities and two district panchayat seats.
AAP made its debut in Gujarat within the 2017 meeting polls, however was once not able to win a unmarried seat. All its 29 applicants had misplaced their deposits because the party’s best-known faces — Mr Kejriwal and Manish Sisodia — failed to show up for campaigning.
This time, Mr Kejriwal had made an early get started, conserving a roadshow in Surat quickly after closing yr’s civic polls.
The BJP, which revved up its marketing campaign an afternoon after meeting election effects with a rally by way of High Minister Narendra Modi, had declared that AAP is extra of a contest for the Congress.
Mr Kejriwal had hit again mentioning the party’s observe document in Delhi, the place it received simplest 28 seats within the first election it contested and went on to brush town with 67 of its 70 seats.
Within the closing yr’s elections, AAP nearly did a repeat efficiency in Delhi. This yr, it was once the flip of Punjab, the place it swept the Congress, BJP and the Akali Dal to the margins. In Goa, it opened its account with two seats within the lately concluded meeting elections.
