MP: AAP’s Tuesday rally could see ‘big announcements’ by Kejriwal

Bhopal : Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal is expected to make some big welfare announcements in the Aam Aadmi Party rally in Bhopal’s BHEL Dussehra Maidan on Tuesday as he kicks off the party’s campaign for the Madhya Pradesh Assembly polls to be held later this year, a functionary said.
With the rally, the AAP is aiming to make a dent in the politics of MP that so far has been centred around the Bharatiya Janata Party, which has been in power for a dominant part of the last two decades, and the Congress.
Kejriwal will be joined by Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann at the rally, organisers said.
“Kejriwal is expected to make some big announcements. We are giving very cheap electricity in Delhi, free quality education and health facilities to the poor unlike what is happening in MP. Here power and health facilities are very costly,” an AAP leader told PTI from the rally venue.
“We have worked hard to ensure one lakh people across MP attend the rally. After this, we are going to hold such big rallies in all the divisional headquarters in the state. AAP has enrolled more than five lakh members since a drive was launched by organisation general secretary Sandeep Pathak on February 4,” former MP AAP chief Pankaj Singh told PTI.
Pathak, who is considered one of the main architects of the AAP’s strategy in Punjab and Gujarat, has toured Bhopal, Indore, Rewa, Gwalior and Jabalpur as part of preparations for the Assembly polls.