AAP to announce all candidates in a month
AFTER UNVEILING THE 21-POINT TRADERS’ MANIFESTO IN LUDHIANA ON SUNDAY, KEJRIWAL WILL HOLD FIVE OTHER MEETINGS WITH INDUSTRIALISTS DURING HIS 3-DAY STAY IN STATE
CHANDIGARH: The Aam Aadmi Party will announce all its candidates within a month.
Announcing this, chairman of AAP’s Punjab Dialogue Committee, Kanwar Sandhu, said on Friday that the party will release the remaining manifestoes within the same period. The part has already announced 61 candidates in Punjab.
Sandhu was addressing a press conference here to give details of Arvind Kejriwal’s three-day visit to Punjab starting Sunday (October 23).
He said after unveiling the 21-point trader’s manifesto in Ludhiana on Sunday morning, Kejriwal will hold five other meetings with traders and industrialists during his stay in Punjab, explaining the manifesto.
On Sunday evening he will address traders at Mandi Gobindgarh. On Monday, he will pay obeisance at Gurdwara Damdama Sahib in Talwandi Sabo and then interact with the trader community at Bathinda and Jalandhar. On Tuesday, Kejriwal will visit Batala in the morning and later in the day meet industrialists in Mohali.
Accompanied by the party’s head of trade and industry wing Aman Arora, Sandhu said the party received suggestions from people dealing in different trades and the manifesto was finalised keeping in mind the aspirations of all sections.
NO TALKS WITH SIDHUS FOR 10 DAYS: SANDHU
When asked about the possibility of getting Navjot Sidhu and his wife into the AAP, Sandhu said he had met Sidhu twice and also talked to Pargat Singh several times. “But for the past 10 days, there has been no talk with them,” he said.
‘AKALIS’ CAPITAL PROMISE HOLLOW’
Reacting to the deputy CM Sukhbir Badal’s statement wherein he committed to get Chandigarh as Punjab’s capital, AAP on Friday termed it as “hollow and misleading” to befool the people of the state. AAP’s state convener Gurpreet Singh Waraich said, “Sukhbir must reveal what steps he and his party took in 10 years to get back Chandigarh? Did he take up this issue with the Centre? Did any Akali MP take up the issue in the Parliament?”