The Aam Aadmi Party(AAP) has started preparations for the assembly elections to be held in Punjabnext year. On Sunday, the party's chief Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwalheld a three-hour meeting with the MLAs of Punjab. In which the details of hisperformance along with the political situation in Punjab were discussed. In themeeting, all the MLAs demanded Kejriwal to declare the chief minister's face atthe earliest to fetch a bigger share of assembly seats. Kejriwal has reiteratesthat only Sikh face will be made the Chief Minister in Punjab. After which thecuriosity has increased in the political fizz of Punjab, who will that face be?In the last election too, the Aam Aadmi Party lagged behind the expected seatrally as its opponents made it a poll issue that Kejriwal himself wanted tobecome the Chief Minister of Punjab. This time the AAP MLAs do not want torepeat the mistake of 2017 and urges Kejriwal to announce the name of the partyCM face in Punjab.
After meeting with Kejriwal, now the Aam Aadmi Party in Punjab will cash in onthe issues of agricultural reform law, sacrilege and power agreement. Kejriwalhas clearly said in the meeting that all possible help should be given to theagitating farmers. Apart from this, till now the culprits of sacrilege areroaming freely. Due to this case, not only did the Akalis get out of power lasttime but they also did not get the votes worthy to be in the main oppositionparty. AAP feels that these issues are going to hurt Congress prospect duringthe coming elections as the party has already reeled under severe infightingwithin party rank and file.
Aam Aadmi Party's Punjab chief Bhagwant Mann said that after the meeting withArvind Kejriwal, all doubts have been clear and the party cadre inPunjab is ready to hold the Congress party head-on. Mann targeted theCaptain regarding the power agreement and said that if the contract would haveended by writing a letter, then why the Captain Government remained silent forfour and a half years? These agreements are written by the companies, theycannot be terminated so easily. Mann said that the party would go to the publicon all issues.
(By Dinesh Sharma)