Over two months after the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) received a drubbing in Punjab Assembly polls, the party’s national convener and Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal is set to visit the State on May 29 to meet party leaders and volunteers. Party’s State unit co-president Aman Arora on Friday said that Kejriwal would visit Amritsar for a day and meet party volunteers and the state leadership.
Sunam MlA said that Talwandi Sabo MlA Baljinder Kaur was entrusted with the task of coordinating Kejriwal’s visit. His visit assumes significance as the party has been trying to get its act together to play the role of a strong opposition in Punjab since its polls debacle in the State Assembly polls.
The problems for the party grew when former State unit convener Gurpreet Singh Ghuggi questioned the “urgency” of the party leadership in appointing Sangrur MP Bhagwant Mann as the new chief of the State unit. Moreover, AAP MlA from Bholath Sukhpal Singh Khaira had also offered to resign from the posts of chief whip and spokesperson of the party.
later, the party faced a setback when Ghuggi, an actor and satirist, resigned from the primary membership of the party and described the poll process of appointing Mann as the new State unit chief as “fake and unfair”. Ghuggi had claimed that Kejriwal did not have even five minutes to spare for the people of Punjab after the poll results while he spent a lot of time in the State before the polls.