Since the election campaign is gaining momentum day by day in the national capital, the Aam Aadmi Party functionary is planning bigger role for Sunita Kejriwal, wife of Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal. The party’s campaign team is planning for roadshows and other modes of campaign for Sunita Kejriwal in absence of the CM who is in jail in connection with liquor excise policy ‘scam’.

Party leaders said that Sunita will be attending her first roadshow in East Delhi’s Kondli assembly constituency in the coming weekend.

Sunita is slowly emerging out of the shadows to assume a bigger role to give a fillip to the AAP’s campaigning which has been affected by Kejriwal’s arrest by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) in a money laundering case in March.   The Delhi chief minister’s judicial custody has been extended till May 7. “The chief minister’s wife is scheduled to attend her first roadshow in Kondli reserved assembly constituency represented by Kuldeep Kumar, who is the AAP’s East Delhi Lok Sabha seat candidate, in the coming weekend,” said a party functionary.

 Sunita will also attend roadshows in the other three Lok Sabha seats contested by the AAP in Delhi, he said.

 Delhi AAP convener Gopal Rai said the next phase of party’s Lok Sabha campaign ‘Jail Ka Jawab Vote Se’ (response to imprisonment (of Kejriwal) with vote), will begin from April 27. “Sunita Kejriwal, the wife of Chief Minister and AAP convener Arvind Kejriwal, will also go among the people,” Rai said.

 AAP candidate from East Delhi Kuldeep Kumar told PTI, “This is my good fortune that she chose East Delhi to start the Lok Sabha campaign and she specially chose that area where I started my political career and from where I have got love and blessings. People of Delhi and the Kondli area are standing with her during this time.”

 He said that she was standing “rock solid” against the “authoritarian regime” in the country and inspired the AAP volunteers.

 AAP Rajya Sabha MP Sanjay Singh said in a press conference that Sunita Kejriwal will campaign in different areas of Delhi. Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann will also campaign in Delhi, he added.  Singh said the AAP’s main slogan is ‘Jail Ka Jawab Vote Se’.   Kejriwal, who is like a son of Delhi people and who arranged free education, health, water, electricity facilities, has been put in jail by the BJP government and he must be released from there, Singh said.