AAP may be politically hit in Punjab

Chandigarh, November 19

While the Aam Aadmi Party has welcomed the announcement by PM Narendra Modi to repeal the three farm laws, the end of the farmers’ struggle is likely to politically hit the party the hardest.

Played sympathiser

• Once the farm laws’ issue is over, the only option for AAP will be to hard sell its performance in Delhi
• So far it has been wooing farmers, the largest vote bank in Punjab, by supporting protesters at the Delhi border

It is AAP that has been extending support to the protesting farmers at the Delhi borders, where they have been staging protests for around a year now. This was done keeping in mind the Punjab Assembly elections to be held early next year.

Even today, party’s Punjab unit president Bhagwant Mann tried to raise issues like legal guarantee for the MSP on 23 crops, besides reminding them how they were insulted and labelled as “anti-national” by the BJP and how it was only AAP that continued to stand by the farmers.

As soon as the issue of farm laws comes to an end, and the realpolitik steers towards issues like health, education, urban renewal, unemployment etc., the only option for the party will be to hard sell its performance in Delhi and the governance they have provided there. — TNS