During his go to, Arvind Kejriwal is scheduled to inaugurate get together’s Gujarat state workplace in Ahmedabad.
Ahmedabad:
Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal, whose Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) is eyeing to contest the 2022 Gujarat Assembly polls, might be on a one-day go to to the state on Monday, a spokesperson of the get together stated.
“Now Gujarat will change. Tomorrow I am coming to Gujarat, and will meet all the brothers and sisters of Gujarat,” Mr Kejriwal stated in a tweet posted in Gujarati on Sunday.
During his go to, Mr Kejriwal is scheduled to inaugurate the get together’s Gujarat state workplace in Ahmedabad.
This might be Mr Kejriwal’s second go to to Gujarat. He had final visited Surat in February after the get together emerged as the principle opposition after the civic physique elections there in its maiden battle there.
His go to assumes significance because the AAP is eyeing to contest the December 2022 Gujarat Assembly election and aggressively making ready for it.
In a launch, the state unit of the AAP stated, “As per (Mr) Kejriwal’s day-long itinerary of his Monday visit, he will arrive at Ahmedabad airport at 10.20 am, from where he will go to the circuit house. At 11.40 am, he will hold a press conference at the city’s Vallabh Sadan after “taking the blessings of Lord Krishna.”
He will then go away to inaugurate the get together’s new state workplace positioned on Ashram Road. Kejriwal will go away for Delhi on the identical day, get together”s spokesperson Tuli Banerjee stated.
The AAP had made inroads into Gujarat politics by profitable 27 seats within the 120-member Surat Municipal Corporation (SMC), rising as the principle opposition. The get together had additionally fielded candidates throughout all of the native bodies- municipal companies, municipalities, in addition to district and taluka panchayats, profitable on a number of of them.
The AAP is seeking to current itself as a formidable different to the Congress in Gujarat and problem the BJP in Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s residence turf. The get together is attempting to fill within the hole left by the Congress, which has seen setbacks within the current previous with a number of of its MLAs resigning, and its poor efficiency within the native physique polls held in February this yr.
