AAP to micro-manage each assembly constituency in Punjab

Ravi S Singh

Tribune News Service

New Delhi, December 29

The Aam Aadmi Party will assign each of the 117 assembly constituencies in Punjab to MLAs and senior party functionaries to micro-manage them electorally.

At least one leader will be deputed for every constituency.

While some of the constituencies have been assigned to leaders, responsibilities regarding the remaining will be finalised before the end of this year.

The strategy of micro-managing the constituencies was fleshed out at a recent meeting of senior leaders at the central level.

Delhi AAP MLA Raghav Chadha, who is the co-incharge of Punjab affairs, is in the vanguard of implementing the strategies with the support of core senior leaders of the state.

"AAP will leave nothing to chance. People of Punjab have already showered love and affection on AAP national convenor and Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal. They have appreciated his administrative skills," AAP Rajya Sabha MP Sushil Gupta said.

Sources close to Kejriwal said the party was temporarily on the backfoot initially after the Congress made Charanjit Singh Channi, a Dalit Sikh, the chief minister. The party went to the drawing board and planned afresh for the elections.  

"People of Punjab want the AAP government. Hence, the party will not be found wanting on an effective strategy for the electoral battle," Gupta said.

Besides putting each of the constituencies under the charge of a leader, AAP's central leadership has decided to allow the local leadership to be in the forefront and lead the party's electoral campaign.

A review would be made on this strategy midway as the election campaign intensifies.

Senior leaders of AAP have by now a fair grooming in electoral strategy from the party electoral laboratory of Delhi, so to speak. The party is buoyed up with its high percentage performance in the recent local elections in Chandigarh.

The party has high hopes from the assembly elections in Punjab.

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