In an apparent push to its ‘Jail ka Jawab Vote Se’ campaign, the Aam Aadmi Party has named Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal, Manish Sisodia and Satyendra Jain, all of whom are imprisoned, as the party’s star campaigner in Gujarat ahead of the Lok Sabha elections 2024.
AAP on Tuesday announced a list of 40 star campaigners in Gujarat which also mentioned the names of Kejriwal’s wife Sunita Kejriwal and Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann.
The Lok Sabha elections in Gujarat will be held in a single phase on May 7 and the last date for filing nomination papers is April 19.
In Gujarat, AAP is running the election as part of the INDIA bloc and will contest the two seats of Bharuch and Bhavnagar out of a total of 26. The remaining 24 seats will be contested by Congress.
Other prominent names on the list are AAP Rajya Sabha MPs Sanjay Singh, Raghav Chadha and Sandeep Pathak.
The Jail ka Jawab Vote Se campaign
On Tuesday, the party kicked off a mega campaign called Jail ka Jawab vote se Sankalp Sabha.
AAP convenor Gopal Rai said that the campaign will continue till May 23. Under this, all party MLAs will hold meetings in areas falling under the national capital’s four constituencies – East, South, West and New Delhi.
“I will kickstart the campaign tomorrow (April 16) from the Vishwas Nagar Assembly constituency, and hold 40 sabhas… till April 22. Similarly, AAP Rajya Sabha MP Sanjay Singh will begin the sabhas from Ambedkar Nagar, which will continue till May 23… All leaders will hold such sabhas and take a pledge against the arrest of Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal,” Rai said.
He added, “The schedule for the sabhas as well as the MLAs will be released soon… Our target is to get 1 lakh people to take a pledge in the ‘Jail ka jawab vote se sankalp sabha.”
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