AAP to launch ‘Punjab Yatra’ from May 1
CHANDIGARH: The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) will start its “Punjab Yatra” to identify issues of public importance which will be raised in the next session of the state assembly.
Addressing the media here, AAP MLA and leader of opposition in the Punjab Vidhan Sabha HS Phoolka said the motive was to reach the people at the grassroots level and know their problems. He said the yatra would begin on May 1 from Amritsar.
“The people will be asked their issues and compiled as question to be raised in the Vidhan Sabha. This kind of yatra will be held before every assembly session,” he said.Apart from the interactions during the yatra, people can submit their problems through phone call, he said.
“Being the leader of opposition in the Vidhan Sabha, I have a greater responsibility of raising the issues of people of state. The purpose of yatra is to reach the people who have no access to their representatives and their issues are never addressed,” Phoolka said.
Phoolka was accompanied by AAP MLAs Aman Arora, Pirmal Singh Dhaula, Kulwant Singh Pandori, Jagtar Singh Hissowal and Amarjit Singh Sandhoa.
AAP leaders alleged that there was no improvement in the law and order situation despite change of guard in the state.
“Nothing has changed with the change of guard in the state and the Congress leaders are behaving worse than Akalis,” they alleged.