Sisodia to kick off AAP Punjab poll campaign
Chandigarh, Apr 11 :: Delhi Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia, also in charge of Punjab political affairs of the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP), will kickstart campaigning in Punjab on April 15 from Sangrur Parliamentary constituency.
While addressing mediapersons here on Thursday, Punjab unit campaign committee chairman Aman Arora said that the Delhi Deputy Chief Minister will also address a meeting of party workers/volunteers on the occasion.
Arora also announced the formation of a five-member campaign committee (Punjab unit), which included Harchand Singh Barsat, Navdeep Singh Sangha, Neel Garg, Sukhraj Singh Gora Ferozeshah and Avtar Singh Eilwal.
He informed that he, in his capacity as Punjab unit campaign committee chief, would address meeting at Hoshiarpur and Jalandhar (April 16), Sri Anandpur Sahib and Patiala (April 17), Fatehgarh Sahib (April 18), Gurdaspur and Amritsar (April 19), Faridkot and Ferozepur (April 21).
In reply to a question on Punjab unit chief Bhagwant Mann’s letter addressed to the people of the state, especially his saying no to alcohol,
Arora clarified that Mann had to take this decision in the interest of the public and silence his detractors in the Congress and Akali Dal who had been hell-bent on maligning his public image by mounting a relentless vilification campaign against him.
He said instead of resorting to target their adversary to earn cheap publicity, they should have focused on people-centric issues. He said that, instead of talking on such non-issues, the core issues today are agrarian crisis, suicides by farmers and farmhands, un-employment, drugs, education, health services, mafia ‘raj’ etc.
On the question of forging alliance with political parties, Arora said that core committee of the party (Punjab unity) had already conveyed its view to the high command against any poll pact with any party in the state. He made it clear that poll alliance with the Congress party in Delhi had been a distant possibility.
Answering another question, the AAP leader said that compared to other leaders of the conventional parties ruling the roost for the past more than 70 years, Sangrur MP Bhagwant Mann had emerged as a prominent and trusted leader among the people of the state. He said Mann was the only elected representative from the state who had taken up a maximum number of people-centric issues and concerns in the Parliament during his 5-year-old stint.(Agency)