AAP appoints zonal chiefs, office-bearers

The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) on Sunday announced the names of its Punjab unit office-bearers and zonal presidents.

The state unit, led by Sangrur MP Bhagwant Mann, will have five zonal presidents, 17 vicepresidents and 19 general secretaries.

The jumbo list includes 15 party candidates who unsuccessfully contested assembly elections. The functioning of the AAP state unit, which was under scanner after the assembly poll results poll, banks heavily on the office-bearers for revival of the party.

Gulshan Chhabra will be the secretary of the state unit, and Garry Birring will head a team for organisation building.

All the MPs and MLAs will be ex-officio members of the state executive.

The party will have five zonal units comprising several districts, and each zone will be led by a president, the party’s state co-president Aman Arora announced.

Arora was given the responsibility of restructuring the party organisation in the state.

He said that feedback collected from party workers during his statewide tour, ‘AAP Apniya Naal’, was taken into consideration while forming the new team.

He said a few more appointments would be made in the days to come.

He said that the appointments of district presidents, frontal wing heads and office-bearers of the zonal units would be announced later.

Arora said that the party organisation would have eight levels — state, zone, district, assembly, block, circle, village/ward and booth.

The Punjab unit of the AAP was dissolved in May during the first meeting held under newly appointed party’s state president Bhagwant Mann in Chandigarh.

THE STATE UNIT WILL HAVE FIVE ZONAL PRESIDENTS, 17 VICEPRESIDENTS AND 19 GENERAL SECRETARIES