Leaders like Captain Amarinder Singh, Sukhbir Badal and Navjot Singh Sidhu felt that Tiger was sleeping. It seemed to them that they would easily take out the election. Kejriwal, on the other hand, did not wait even a single day out of 1825. He called back the team he had sent to Punjab before 2017. That team reportedly faced a number of serious allegations. Kejriwal prepared another team and sent it to Punjab. He got the result too.
Actually, many workers with Kejriwal are those who have known him since the time of the Anna movement. He has worked shoulder to shoulder with Kejriwal during the agitation. Later, when Kejriwal formed a political party, many workers joined him. After the massive victory of Delhi in the year 2015, Kejriwal started working on Punjab. A senior AAP leader who had been associated with AAP for a long time, who later distanced himself from Kejriwal, has revealed many important things.
According to the leader, Arvind Kejriwal had sent a team of his trusted people to Punjab. Many of them are still working in various positions in the organization. Some leaders have also become MPs. At present, he is holding high positions in the party. Punjab assembly elections were to be held in 2017. For this, Kejriwal had started preparations long ago. He sent the team of senior leaders to Punjab. When the results of Punjab elections came, the AAP national convener was disappointed, but he did not give up. Then AAP got 22 seats. They started preparing again.
Former aides of Kejriwal say that at that time the AAP convener had received many complaints about the team sent to Punjab. What did that team do there for two years. However, Kejriwal did not allow the issue to get much wind. He changed the team. The new team was sent to Punjab. They were looking at every minor report. Later, Delhi MLA Raghav Chadha was made co-in-charge of Punjab. He is considered a trusted aide of Kejriwal.
The special thing is that Kejriwal was proceeding on his intelligence operation in Punjab. On the other hand senior leaders like Parkash Singh Badal, Sukhbir Singh Badal, Bikram Singh Majithia, Navjot Singh Sidhu and Captain Amarinder Singh did not realize the presence of the AAP convener. They kept thinking that Kejriwal is not active in Punjab elections as he was seen in Delhi Assembly elections. The Aam Aadmi Party gradually explored the issues of different regions of Punjab.
In the internal survey of AAP, it was found that there is anger among the people of Punjab towards all the existing political parties. Sources say that AAP had conducted many such surveys. Last year, Kejriwal made several visits to Punjab. Kejriwal appeared with Haldhar in the farmers’ movement in Delhi. He had met the farmers at the site of the movement.
Several months before the elections, Kejriwal raised many issues in front of the people of Punjab. All these issues were directly related to the people. Like free electricity, education, opening 16,000 mohalla clinics and putting 1000 rupees every month in the bank account of women above 18 years. Like Delhi, in Punjab also 300 units of electricity will be provided free of cost and 24 hours a day.
It was revealed in the survey report that the people of Punjab are seriously moving towards change. The leaders of other parties could not understand this mission of Kejriwal and in the election, AAP cleared almost all the parties.