2 August, Haryana: The Aam Aadmi Party’s (AAP) current campaign appears to be having trouble gaining momentum in the caste-dominated state as it attempts to generate excitement for the forthcoming Assembly elections.
With its extensive “Badlav Jan Samvad” campaign, the party is reaching out to the people in Haryana through its recently formed organizational structure.
Kejriwal is a native of Bhiwani district’s Siwani mandi town.
AAP is undoubtedly having trouble getting its act together now that the national AAP convener and chief minister of Delhi is in jail over a purported alcohol scandal. Kejriwal’s absence is hurting the AAP, despite the fact that the party has positioned its prominent leaders—including Rajya Sabha MP Sanjay Singh, Punjab CM Bhagwant Mann, and Kejriwal’s wife Sunita—at the forefront of the campaign in Haryana.
On July 26, Mann launched the AAP’s campaign from the Barwala area of Hisar. To date, the party has arranged roughly twelve public gatherings throughout six Assembly segments. Anmol Gagan Maan, the Punjab Minister, also spoke at a Kaithal assembly meeting in the Guhla segment.
In spite of this, AAP is having trouble getting people to show up for the public meetings. “In metropolitan regions, our organizational system reaches the ward level, and in rural areas, it reaches the village level. However, cadre strength needs to be translated to electoral strength, a party staffer stated.
Senior Punjabi party workers have been sent to Haryana. Four leaders in each of the 90 Assembly seats in Haryana, including the chairpersons of various boards and organizations from Punjab, are acting as observers out of a total of 360 leaders, according to a party insider.
The Centre for the Study of Developing Societies (CSDS)’s Prof. Sanjay Kumar, Co-Director of Lokniti, stated that while the AAP was attempting to establish itself in Haryana and expected to profit from controlling two neighboring states, Punjab and Delhi, the party had little advantage. “The voters evaluate the parties that are running in the Assembly elections. AAP is currently not running in the primary Haryana election.
Prof. Kumar stated that “it even lost from Kurukshetra despite being in alliance with the Congress” and that it was unlikely to change its fate to even try to make an impression by promoting Kejriwal’s “Haryana connection.”
But according to AAP state secretary Umesh Sharma, the people of Haryana, particularly the weaker parts, were drawn to the party because of its record in the fields of health and education. “We discovered during the Siksha Samvad Yatra that the people of the state want their children to receive better education. They also place a high premium on health,” he stated.