2019 elections: AAP to launch campaign in Haryana today
Senior leader Gopal Rai says party is aiming to win all the 90 assembly seats and 10 Lok Sabha seats in state, Arvind Kejriwal to address rally in Gurugram
The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP), which will contest both the Lok Sabha and assembly elections in Haryana, will start its campaign in the state on Saturday with a public rally in Gurugram.
Senior party leader Gopal Rai said the party is all set to contest both the elections in the state.
“Our focus for Lok Sabha will be Delhi, Haryana and Punjab where we will contest for all seats,” he told IANS.
The party is aiming to contest and win all the 90 assembly seats and 10 Lok Sabha seats in Haryana, for which the party will start its campaigning on Saturday with a public rally by chief minister Arvind Kejriwal in Gurugram, he said.
Sanjay Singh, another senior AAP leader, said AAP MLAs from Delhi have been assigned 10 assembly constituencies each and they will monitor the work and the campaign.
The party, he said, is confident of winning the elections in Haryana.
“I can see a positive sign in Haryana. Last time when we were contesting for the elections in Delhi, our posters were trashed and we won a clear majority. The same is happening in Haryana now. And this, I see, as a positive sign. The party will put all its effort and energy in Haryana,” he added.
Singh said the party candidates for Haryana elections will be announced after December 11, when the results of assembly elections in five states of Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan, Telangana, Mizoram and Chhattisgarh will be declared .
For the past few months, Kejriwal has been consistently attacking Haryana chief minister Manohar Lal Khattar on various issues, including the conditions of schools and hospitals in the state.
Earlier this month, Kejriwal wrote to chief minister Khattar, inviting him for a “surprise inspection” of Delhi government’s ‘Mohalla Clinics’ and let him “inspect” Haryana’s dispensaries.
Later, he also invited the people from Haryana to visit the national capital to inspect the schools and clinics here and to see the work done by his government.
Last month, Kejriwal along with other Aam Aadmi Party leaders, including Manish Sisodia, Satyendar Jain, Naveen Jaihind and Surinder Singh, visited a government school in Beri village of Jhajjar district of the state.