Sisodia to launch AAP’s ‘UP mission 2022’ in Lko today

LUCKNOW : Delhi’s deputy chief minister Manish Sisodia is coming to Lucknow on Tuesday, purportedly to officially start off the Aam Aadmi Party’s (AAP) campaign for the 2022 Uttar Pradesh assembly polls.

Sisodia will be the first highprofile AAP leader to visit the state after the 2014 Lok Sabha elections, in which AAP faced a drubbing in Uttar Pradesh.

Ahead of Sisodia’s visit, AAP volunteers on Monday started posting pictures allegedly of dilapidated buildings of UP government schools with hashtag ‘Selfie with Sarkari School’ from across the state.

Ever since Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal announced AAP’s decision to contest UP assembly polls, there has been a war of words between AAP leaders and BJP ministers on the issue of Kejriwal model versus Yogi Adityanath’s good governance, with emphasis on government schools and healthcare sector.

Brajesh Kumar Mishra, associate professor of political science, Jai Narayan PG Degree College, said: “The way BJP government is reacting on the statements of AAP leaders, it points towards a strategy to create another centre of opposition

among non-BJP parties in Uttar Pradesh and confuse non-BJP voters.” BJP will be more than happy if AAP cuts into opposition’s vote bank, Mishra added.

Before 2022 assembly polls, AAP will test its political prowess in UP’s panchayat polls in March next year. “With nothing to lose, AAP will resort to all sorts of ‘methods’ to gain public attention and remain in the news,” said a political commentator not willing to be quoted.