Market. Buoyed by its resounding victory in Punjab, the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) on Wednesday began its campaign for the state assembly elections to be held in November this year. The party started the campaign for 68 assembly seats from this city, which is the home constituency of incumbent BJP chief minister Jai Ram Thakur. During this, he said, it is time to end corruption from Himachal Pradesh. In a show of strength, two of the party’s chief ministers – Arvind Kejriwal of Delhi and Bhagwant Mann of Punjab – held a roadshow in which they told the public, “If you come to power, you will root out corruption in Himachal Pradesh too.”
AAP’s national convener said, “You have given 30 years to Congress and 17 years to BJP to rule the state, everyone has looted Himachal. Just give me five years. If you are not satisfied, you change us.” can.”
He said that first he eradicated corruption in Delhi, then in Punjab. Now, the time has come to uproot corruption from Himachal Pradesh.
Kejriwal said, “We are common people, we don’t know how to do politics. Instead, we know how to work for the people, build schools and eliminate corruption. We have worked in Punjab only since Bhagwant Mann became the chief minister. Corruption has been ended in 20 days. Now, ‘Kranti’ should happen in Himachal Pradesh also.”
Punjab Chief Minister Mann accused both the BJP and the Congress of promoting dynasty politics, saying, “AAP promotes common man in politics to eliminate corruption and ensure people’s development.”
Himachal Pradesh has traditionally been dominated by the Congress, and when the Janata Party came to power in 1977, it saw its first non-Congress chief minister, Shanta Kumar.
After destroying the strongholds of all the major political parties in Punjab, AAP is now gearing up to win the hills of Himachal Pradesh in the assembly elections to be held in November.
In Punjab, the circumstances are no different for the party that has dismantled the traditional political outfits of the Akalis, the BJP and the Congress.
A strong anti-incumbency wave against the ruling BJP – evident from the loss of three assembly and one parliamentary seat in the October 2021 bypolls – and the absence of experienced chief ministerial faces could work for the party, which is already in two states. is ruling.
Both the traditional game changers – Congress’s Virbhadra Singh and BJP’s Prem Kumar Dhumal – are out of the fray. Singh has died, while Dhumal is doing virtual politics after his defeat in the last assembly elections.
Political observers told -AnyTV News that the pitch is more or less clear for the AAP, which has yet to make its presence felt even in the state civic polls, to do away with traditional political outfits in the hill state, where both the Congress and the BJP won the 1985 elections. ruled alternatively.
In the past few weeks, AAP has added 300,000 people to its membership drive. However, so far no senior Congress or BJP leader has joined AAP.
Delhi Health Minister Satyendar Jain, who is in charge of the Himachal Pradesh election campaign with a focus on health and education, recently inducted 1,000 people from Mandi’s first chief minister, Chief Minister Thakur’s constituency, into the AAP.
Ahead of the assembly elections, the Aam Aadmi Party has announced to play a ‘semi-final’ for its first contest in the BJP-ruled Shimla Municipal Corporation at the end of May.
—AnyTV News
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