Having squandered some of the gains it had made through winning four of the 13 Lok Sabha seats in Punjab, the Arvind Kejriwal-led Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) on Saturday finally set in place an organisational structure in the state. The party has appointed retired defence personnel, educationists, advocates and social workers as heads of the 13 zones it has split the state into. They have been tasked with holding meetings with AAP volunteers and public to ascertain issues plaguing the state. [related-post] AAP’s Punjab observer Sanjay Singh announced the appointment of 13 observers and coordinators at different levels who, he said, would be monitored by a Delhi-based head. Though the party is eyeing the 2017 Assembly elections here, it has stuck to Lok Sabha seat division by splitting the state into 13 zones as per the 13 Parliamentary seats. Singh, significantly, quashed all speculation surrounding Sucha Singh Chottepur, who will remain as the state unit convener. Besides appointing zone heads, the party has also constituted and appointed heads for its various wings - youth, women, farmer, trade and transport, legal, intellectual, NRI, and ex-servicemen. The students wing would also be announced later on in consultation with local heads. Sanjay Singh said the zonal observers in Delhi would help the local heads with their experience of organisational structure that led to phenomenal victory in Delhi Assembly elections.
