With an eye on 2019 Lok Sabha polls, Delhi Chief Minister and AAP convenor Arvind Kejriwal will hold public meetings in all Lok Sabha constituencies in Haryana.
Stepping up party’s campaign ahead of 2019, Arvind Kejriwal is scheduled to address 10 public meetings in all parliamentary constituencies by the end of December.
The Delhi Chief Minister will also visit Sonipat on Wednesday to give ex-gratia of Rs 1 crore to the family of BSF jawan Narender Singh, who was brutally killed by Pakistan forces along the International Border near Jammu in September.
“Arvind Kejriwal will address a Jan Sabha (public meeting) on November 24 in Gurugram, December 2 in Faridabad, December 3 in Narnaul (Bhiwani-Mahendragarh constituency) and December 9 in Karnal,” said AAP state unit chief Naveen Jaihind, while talking to the mediapersons here on Tuesday.
Jaihind said that Kejriwal will address 10 public meetings by the end of December.
The decision to hold public meetings in all 10 Lok Sabha constituencies was taken following the recent incident in Karnal, where Kejriwal was stopped by the BJP activists from visiting a state-run dispensary, he said.
The party has planned to contest on all 10 Lok Sabha seats from Haryana and also, on all 90 assembly seats, election for which are due later next year
The AAP Haryana chief further said that the Delhi CM will also address a rally to be held on November 25 in Jind on the issues of enhancement charges levied by HUDA.
Kejriwal was earlier scheduled to address ‘Pension Adhikar’ rally of the state employees on October 7 in Karnal but the rally was cancelled, he said.
Jaihind also said that the Delhi Chief Minister will go to Sonipat on November 21 to give ex-gratia of Rs 1 crore to the kin of slain BSF jawan Narender Singh.
The visit comes days after the AAP led Delhi Government had approved a proposal to amend a rule on giving ex-gratia of Rs 1 crore to the kin of slain security personnel to include those who have settled in the national capital after joining service.
Earlier on September 21, Kejriwal had visited the native village of Narender Singh.
Responding to a question on why the Delhi Government has chosen only martyr Narender Singh for providing the financial assistance and not other martyrs from Haryana, Jaihind said that as per the criteria, Narender Singh’s family was living in Delhi.
Accusing the Manohar Lal Khattar Government in Haryana of removing hoardings and posters of AAP, Jaihind said that we will get an FIR register against the Chief Minister if they (BJP) continue to remove our hoardings and threaten those preparing these hoardings and posters.
“200 hoardings of the AAP were put up in Haryana,” he said responding to a query.
On Kejriwal’s challenge to Manohar Lal for inspection of dispensaries and schools in Haryana, state AAP chief said that BJP has nothing to showcase as they did nothing to upgrade the infrastructure of schools and hospitals in the past four years of their tenure.
Notably, the Delhi CM had recently written to his Haryana counterpart Manohar Lal, expressing his wish to inspect some government dispensaries of Haryana. He had also invited Haryana CM to visit the 'mohalla clinics' set up by the AAP dispensation to check the "ground reality" of health institutions in the national capital.
Eyeing a win in the 2019 polls, Kejriwal is hard selling his AAP led Delhi Government’s achievements in the field of education and health sectors to the voters of Haryana.
After tasting defeat at the hustings in the previous Lok Sabha polls from Haryana, the AAP had not contested the October 2014 assembly elections in the state. In the previous parliamentary polls held in 2014, AAP had lost on all 10 Lok Sabha seats in Haryana and most of its candidates had finished at fourth or fifth position.
Commenting on AAP’s possible alliance for the upcoming elections, Jaihind said that we will make alliance with those who want to uproot CBI—Congress, BJP and Indian National Lok Dal—from the state.