AAP steps up Delhi Assembly poll prep, to kick off its new campaign on September 1

Senior leaders like AAP Rajya Sabha MPs Sanjay Singh and Raghav Chadha, Jasmine Shah, MLA Durgesh Pathak, Delhi ministers Kailash Gahlot, Imran Hussain and others also participated in the meeting.

“The AAP will intensify its campaign for the upcoming Assembly polls in the coming days. A detailed discussion on several aspects regarding governance, the current political scenario in each Assembly constituency, and a discussion about overall politics took place,” said Sandeep Pathak after the meeting at Sisodia’s Mathura Road residence.

He said that Sisodia’s ‘Padyatra’, launched on August 16, has also received a positive response. After getting bail in the excide policy case, Sisodia, AAP’s second in command after Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal, has been handling all party-related matters and election strategies.

Outlining their plan, Sandeep Pathak said: “From September 1, we will start the ‘Aapka Vidhayak-Aapke Dwar’ campaign across the city… Our MLAs will go hold meetings at the mandal- and booth-level, discuss the work done by the AAP government and expose the way the BJP is conspiring against the people of Delhi… Gradually, the party will increase the intensity of the campaign.”

Sandeep Pathak, who is also the AAP’s national general secretary, also accused the BJP of doing “dirty politics” and said, “The politics of the BJP is that before the elections, they win by conspiring and doing dirty politics. If they lose the elections, then their only work is how to break, how to buy (leaders.”

On Sunday, the AAP faced a jolt after five of its MCD councillors joined the BJP. So far, seven councillors and two MLAs from Patel Nagar and Chhatarpur have joined the BJP.

Sandeep Pathak said this is the path of struggle and the BJP will keep doing its work. “But this is not going to benefit them (BJP), instead it will harm them. It is written in the BJP’s destiny that it has seen its peak, after this, it will slowly decline. Our strength is from the people and the work we have done for them and the trust the people have in us.”

The AAP scripted back-to-back Assembly polls successes in 2015 and 2020, winning 67 and 62 seats, respectively, in the 70-member House.