The Aam Aadmi Party on Tuesday said it would launch ‘Punjab Dialogue’ next month to seek people’s opinion on various issues in the State and incorporate them in their manifesto for the 2017 Assembly polls.
The party said it will launch ‘Punjab Dialogue’ on March 15 which will continue till August 15. A blueprint on the kind of Government the common man wants in Punjab will be released on August 15, the party said.
Senior AAP leader Ashish Khetan claimed there is an ongoing “wave” against the present government in Punjab.
“But what kind of Government a farmer, youth, woman, trader and others want and what kind of Punjab they wantIJ AAP will hold a discussion on these issues through ‘Punjab Dialogue’ in the next six months in every village and district and draft a blueprint on governance,” he said here.
He said AAP has identified 10 areas for dialogue with farmers, youth, women, traders, industrialists, ex-employees, labour, professionals, NRIs and government employees.
Khetan named 10 issues confronting the State: farmers’ suicide, drugs, unemployment, corruption, law and order, health and education, mafia (land, transport, sand, cable, liquor), crime against women, atrocities against Dalits, Housing.
“All assembly constituencies will be covered. A dialogue will go on for 15 days. The issues coming up in constituencies will further be discussed at a State level,” he said.
“It has been a tradition that political parties launch manifesto just before polls which even their own people do not know. Such manifestos do not have any sanctity,” he said, adding the AAP had conducted ‘Delhi Dialogue’ during polls, allowing them to make their “own” manifesto.