Step up virtual contact with public, Haryana AAP to cadres

Tribune News Service

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New Delhi, May 21

The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) in Haryana plans to expand its base in the state on the back of the Covid pandemic.

The AAP leadership has asked its cadres to step up public contact, albeit virtually, and raise voice against the state government with regard its alleged “shoddy” handling of the pandemic.

AAP’s strategy for Haryana was prepared during a meeting of party’s senior leaders with Delhi Chief Minister and party national convener Arvind Kejriwal a few days ago.

“The government has failed miserably and the main Opposition Congress has not risen to the occasion,” Haryana’s AAP in charge and Rajya Sabha MP Sushil Gupta said here on Friday.

Gupta said it is an opportune moment for activists of the party to rise to the occasion and present AAP as an alternative to both the ruling BJP and Congress.

AAP has raised the ante with the demand that Haryana Government should reach out with medicine and vaccinations to farmers protesting at several places in the state against the three farm laws.

Also, the government must start conducting free tests on farmers to check them with regard to Covid infection.

Gupta said the pandemic has spread in the villages of Haryana. “The Haryana Government has failed to control it,” Gupta said, and added that the government should raise the state’s annual budget for health from the present 5 per cent.