Punjab, Goa and Gujarat — the three states which go to polls next year, are on the electoral radar of the Aam Aadmi Party.
Punjab, Goa and Gujarat — the three states which go to polls next year, are on the electoral radar of the Aam Aadmi Party. AAP supremo Arvind Kejriwal, who returned to Delhi after his 10-day vipassana session, will focus on Punjab, while his deputy Manish Sisodia and ministers Satyendar Jain and Kapil Mishra will look after poll-bound Goa and Gujarat.
Sources said the decisions were arrived at during a meeting at Mr Kejriwal’s residence, a day after the Delhi CM returned from a 10-day-long vipassana session from Dharamkot on Friday morning.
While senior leaders Ashutosh and Mr Mishra will look after Gujarat, Mr Jain and Mr Sisodia will work towards making AAP click in Goa. Mr Kejriwal has visited the two states multiple times in the recent past.
“There is nothing official as to what their nature of work would be. These were some of the points which we discussed informally at a meeting and a decision will be taken soon,” sources said.
The AAP is locked in a triangular contest against the BJP-SAD alliance and Congress in Punjab while it has made major splashes in Gujarat and Goa in the past few months. All three states are going to polls next year. The party had decimated the BJP and Congress in the last Delhi Assembly election. It is hoping to ride the plank of development, especially in education and health, in meeting success in the other states it is currently focussing on.
Mr Kejriwal on Friday held a number of meetings with his ministers to discuss a number of issues including the high court order which stamped the supremacy of lieutenant-governor in administration of Delhi. A senior official said the CM was briefed on crucial developments that had taken place during his absence from the capital.
