AAP national convener Arvind Kejriwal and party’s Punjab unit chief Bhagwant Mann met some farmers in Chamkaur Sahib, the constituency of Punjab Chief Minister Charanjit Singh Channi.
In a short video of the meeting released by the party on Friday, Kejriwal and Mann are seen talking to some farmers while sitting on cots kept in mustard fields.
In the video, Mann asks the farmers if they have received payment for the sugarcane crop and the farmer replies that it is not cleared yet. “Didn’t you get paid for your produce for two years?” Kejriwal again asks the farmers.
Another farmer tells AAP leaders that many youths of the area are unemployed. “So, this time are you going to bring about change (to bring you to power)?” During the conversation with the farmers, Kejriwal quipped.
“We are with you..,” an elderly farmer tells Kejriwal, and the Delhi chief minister tells him that all he needs is his support. Punjab goes to polls on February 14 and AAP is eyeing power grab from the ruling Congress.
Kejriwal was on a two-day tour of the northern state, which concluded on Thursday, during which he also campaigned from house to house, ruling himself out of the race as the party’s CM face, as the AAP launched its “Janata Choogi Apna CM”. “Launched. Driven a day ago and said that the candidate’s name for the top post would be announced after getting the feedback of the people. However, Kejriwal had said that his own priority for the post is Bhagwant Mann.
In the video, during an interaction with farmers in a village in Chamkaur Sahib, another farmer tells Kejriwal that he got all the support and help from the AAP government, including arranging water, ration and other essentials, which That was done during the stay of the farmers. Agitating against agricultural laws on the borders of Delhi. Kejriwal asks, “Did you come to know about our schools and hospitals in Delhi, to which the farmers reply that they are aware of it. The Chief Minister of Delhi then asks the farmers if there is a government school in their area.
The elderly farmer replies that there are only five teachers where 12 teachers are needed. “What will the kids do?” he asks. Kejriwal tells him that if AAP comes to power, it will improve the condition of government schools like his government did in Delhi and will also provide employment to the youth.
“The way we bring change in Delhi, we will bring change in Punjab also,” he said. There have been attacks on the Channi government, especially from the Aam Aadmi Party, regarding the issues of schools. AAP leader and Delhi Education Minister Manish Sisodia had visited Chamkaur Sahib last month alleging the pathetic condition of two government primary schools.
Sisodia had then alleged that the toilets there smelled and the classrooms were covered with spider webs and that a school had only one teacher, who was getting only Rs 6,000 per month. Sisodia, Kejriwal and Mann are not the only AAP leaders who have targeted Channi’s constituency.
Last month, senior AAP leader and co-in-charge of Punjab affairs Raghav Chadha had made a surprise visit to Jindapur village of Chamkaur Sahib and alleged that illegal sand mining was being done in Channi’s constituency. However, the Punjab chief minister had rubbished his claims and gave a stern warning to AAP leaders in Delhi that no “outsider” would be allowed to raise “unfounded alarms” in the state.
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