AAP Punjab Fields Five Ministers For Lok Sabha Election (image-twitter/raghav_chadha)
The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) strategizes its way to enter into the Lok Sabha election. With the poll dates to be announced within a month, the party has decided to field prominent faces to contest the election.
As per the report of Tribune India, the party is “actively considering” the names of five sitting ministers as the party has decided to contest the poll independently in Punjab. As per the sources, the five ministers will be fielded as candidates for Amritsar, Patiala, Sangrur, Bathinda, and Faridkot Lok Sabha seats.
The ministers will represent the assembly segments that are part of the Lok Sabha constituencies from where they are likely to fight. Three senior party leaders have said that these ministers have a good public interface and have worked at the grassroots level. They have played a significant role in forming the block-level and village-level committees in their constituencies. They further added that they have started spending maximum time in their constituencies and are not re-establishing their core teams for public outreach ahead of the elections.
The party began its on-field work way long back. Last year, in November, all party leaders from the unit’s working president to ministers, MLAs, and district presidents of AAP were allotted five blocks each and were asked to set up and straighten the organizational structure at the village level.
As the units are now set up in the state, the party is expected to showcase better performance in the upcoming polls.
Meanwhile, the Chief Minister of Punjab Bhagwat Mann has ruled out all the possibilities of having an alliance with Congress in the state though b both the members of the INDIA bloc. The AAP leaders accused the grand old party and its leaders as corrupt for the past three years. And the main vote bank of the Congress -the urban Hindus of Punjab- seem to be swayed by the religio-politics and are now rallying behind the BJP.
Aam Aadmi Party came into power with an overwhelming majority in 2022.
