Chandigarh: In a significant development, the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) on Friday appointed senior leader and the former Delhi deputy chief minister Manish Sisodia the party’s incharge of Punjab and former Delhi minister Satyendra Jain, the co-incharge.
The decision to this effect was taken at a meeting of the party’s political affairs committee (PAC) at the house of AAP supremo Arvind Kejriwal.
According to information, other key appointments included that of former Delhi minister Saurabh Bhardwaj, who recently lost his election from Greater Kailash, who was made party’s convener for Delhi, replacing Gopal Rai. Rai was made incharge of Gujarat; Pankaj Gupta and Mehraj Malik were appointed for Goa and Jammu and Kashmir, respectively.
The appointments came over a month after the party lost the Delhi assembly elections to BJP.
Pertinently, the move to appoint Sisodia, a close associate of Kejriwal, as the Punjab party affairs incharge, is also seen as Kejriwal’s bid to retain power in Punjab, the only state ruled by AAP as the state thus also held a great political significance for the party. The assembly polls in Punjab are due in two years.
