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BJP, CONGRESS TO WORRYING ABOUT RISE OF AAP IN PUNJAB

YB WEB DESK. Dated: 1/19/2022 12:40:45 PM

Jammu, Jan 18 Rajesh Gupta vice president Aam Aadmi Party Jammu-Poonch Parliamentary Constituency today while addressing workers meeting at party headquarters, Green Belt, Gandhi Nagar Jammu. He welcomed the decision of Aam Aadmi Party’s national convener and Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal for naming Bhagwant Mann as the party’s chief ministerial candidate for the Punjab Assembly polls to be held next month. With Bhawant Mann named AAP’s choice for Punjab chief minister, the party has signaled that it is heading into the assembly elections full tilt this time. The two-term MP is certainly AAP’s most recognizable local face in Punjab. Gupta said that Bhagwant Mann was chosen on the basis of responses they received under their campaign to elect AAP's CM face for the Assembly polls. He informed that 93% of people voted in favour of Mann's name. Gupta added, both BJP and Congress will have to start worrying about the rise of another national party AAP. AAP leader said, Mann joined the AAP in 2014 and won the Sangrur parliamentary seat by 2,11,721 votes. In the 2017 Assembly polls, AAP pitted him against Akali president Sukhbir Badal from Jalabad but he lost by 18,500 votes. He won the Sangrur parliamentary seat again in 2019 by a margin of 1,11,111 votes.