AAP to launch Delhi election campaign with Sisodia’s march on August 14
Sisodia held a meeting with senior party leaders on Sunday. | Photo: PTI
The AAP will kick off its campaign for the Delhi state Assembly elections with senior leader Manish Sisodia undertaking a walk to reach out to voters in all 70 constituencies, senior party leader Sandeep Pathak said on Monday.
The Delhi state assembly elections are likely to be held early next year.
Former Delhi Deputy Chief Minister Sisodia, who was released from Tihar Jail on Friday, held a meeting with AAP MLAs on Monday. Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal’s wife Sunita also participated in the meeting.
Sisodia held a meeting with senior party leaders on Sunday. He will meet AAP councillors on Tuesday.
Sisodia said that during Monday’s meeting, preparations for the Delhi state assembly elections were discussed.
“In the history of independent India, the AAP is the first party which has been attacked repeatedly. They have even put the top leader of the party in jail. The BJP people should also think that for the first time after the freedom fighters, such people have come who neither break nor bend,” he said.
Pathak, the general secretary of the AAP organisation, told reporters after the meeting that Sisodia will also campaign for the party in Haryana, where state Assembly elections are scheduled later this year.
Pathak said Sisodia’s foot march will begin on August 14 and it will alert people to the BJP’s “tendency” to obstruct work and embarrass them.
“It was decided in the meeting that the assembly elections will be fought to defeat the BJP’s conspiracies to break the Aam Aadmi Party. It is impossible to break the party,” he claimed.
He said the AAP is ready and the people of Delhi are also ready to teach the BJP a lesson so that it does not dare to play “dirty politics” to win elections and break parties elsewhere in the country.
Pathak said the AAP has already held 45 public meetings in Haryana and now larger meetings will be held in every Lok Sabha constituency.
The party has also held a round of small meetings in villages. Another round of meetings will begin soon, he added.
The AAP won the 2020 Delhi Assembly elections, winning 62 of the 70 seats. The party had won as many as 67 seats in the state assembly in the 2015 elections.
This time, the AAP is gearing up to take on the BJP. The morale of party leaders and volunteers, which had been dented by Kejriwal’s arrest, got a boost after Sisodia was granted bail by the Supreme Court last week.
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First publication: Aug 12, 2024 | 11:45 PM IST