Aam Aadmi Party’s ‘Youth Manifesto’ for 2017 Punjab polls will be released by party’s National Convener and Delhi Chief Minister, Arvind Kejriwal on July 3 in Amritsar.
Addressing a news conference, Delhi Dialogue Commission Chairperson, Ashish Khetan and Chairperson ‘Punjab Dialogue’ Committee, Kanwar Sandhu said Kejriwal will be on a on 3 day Punjab visit. Besides releasing manifesto, he will hold meeting with different sections of society.
‘Punjab Dialogue’ Committee members including Chander Suta Dogra, Gurinder Singh Birring, Gagandeep Singh Chadha, Dinesh Chadha, Nishchhal Gaur and Vikas Kamboj were also present during the press conference.
Khetan said that to draft the manifesto for upcoming polls ‘Punjab Dialogue’ committee had visited Schools, colleges, dispensaries, industries and other places in Punjab. After talking to the teachers, industrialists and other share holders of society the draft of ‘Youth Manifesto’ was finalised. He said that youngsters in large number participated in the dialogues with a hope that only AAP can change the present situation of Punjab.
Sandhu said a large number of posts are lying vacant in the government departments of Punjab. There are many schools those are running without teachers and around half of the posts in I.T.Is of Punjab are not filled. The sports teacher’s post in schools are not filled that had led to destroy the sports culture in Punjab.
In its July 3 function and the manifesto be released by AAP, the party is giving a lot of importance to youth who form more than 30% of the state population. After Youth Manifesto, party’s ‘Punjab Dialogue’ committee is working on similar manifestos of Farmers, Dalits, Women and other important sections of the society.
Sandhu said, “The interactions with different sections brought out a dismal picture of the infrastructure and facilities for the youth of the state. Punjab appears to be state in collapse.”
The Youth Manifesto has been prepared with extra diligence after holding 7 dialogues with the youth. The gathering in these dialogues was around 700 to 2000. The places where dialogues were held are Mohali, Sangrur, Patiala, Bathinda, Jalandhar, Malerkotla and Raikot. Besides the direct interactions with the youth at dialogues, a total of 1610 suggestions were received in writing. A total 340 suggestions were received through mails and the team interacted with 6000 people on facebook. The meetings were held with 44 experts in different fields and 6 unions were contacted along with visiting 10 education institutions and other places.