In a crucial meeting at CM Arvind Kejriwal’s residence, Senior AAP leader and former Delhi Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia made a powerful comeback after 17 months, rallying party MLAs with a message of resilience and unity. As senior leaders, including Sunita Kejriwal, National General Secretary (Organisation) Dr. Sandeep Pathak, Delhi State Convenor Gopal Rai, Cabinet Ministers Saurabh Bharadwaj, Atishi, Imran Hussain, and many other senior leaders gathered, the focus shifted to an all-out effort to clinch victory in all 70 assembly seats in the upcoming elections. Manish Sisodia’s call for “positive and work politics” resonated, as he emphasized AAP’s unwavering commitment to public service, even in the face of adversity.
On the fourth day of his release from jail by the Supreme Court, senior AAP leader and former Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia met all the party MLAs. The MLAs were filled with enthusiasm and excitement on seeing Manish Sisodia among them after 17 months. All the MLAs saluted Manish Sisodia’s struggle, Manish Sisodia hugged the MLAs and enquired about their well-being. After this, a marathon meeting began regarding the preparations for the Delhi Assembly elections. Manish Sisodia took information from each MLA about the work done in their assembly and the work underway. Along with this, he also took feedback from the people of the area about the Delhi Government running under the leadership of CM Arvind Kejriwal.
In this meeting, there was also a discussion on Delhi’s works being stopped under the dirty politics and conspiracy by the BJP and the Modi government at the centre. Due to BJP’s ‘Delhi ke kaam roko abhiyan’ (Stop Delhi’s worksMission), the people of Delhi have had to face a lot of trouble. The party has resolved to convey this conspiracy of BJP to the people of Delhi, so that the innocent people do not get trapped in the slogans and deceptions of BJP and choose the right option of CM Arvind Kejriwal, so that Delhi can develop in all aspects. Delhiites should continue to get good governance services of 24×7 electricity, water, education, health, bus travel for women and pilgrimage for the elderly, so that the poor people can get some relief in this era of inflation.
After the meeting, Manish Sisodia said that the preparations for the Delhi Assembly elections were discussed in the meeting. Also, the preparations for the padyatra starting from August 14 were discussed. The padyatra will pass through all the assemblies and during this time, maximum number of people will be interacted with. Apart from this, a guideline was given on how every AAP MLA will work in their respective assembly constituencies till the elections. “In the history of independent India, the AAP is the first party on which attacks are being made one after the other. They have even put the top leader of the party in jail. The BJP people must also be thinking that after freedom fighters, for the first time such people have come who are neither breaking nor bowing down,” he added.
On the other hand, AAP’s National General Secretary (Organisation) Dr. Sandeep Pathak said that an important meeting of all the MLAs was held with the former Deputy Chief Minister of Delhi Manish Sisodia and the top leadership of the party. During this, all the MLAs expressed their gratitude to Manish Sisodia and expressed their love that despite being in jail for so many months, he kept worrying about the people of the country and Delhi all the time and as soon as he came out, he again started serving the people.
Dr. Sandeep Pathak further added that some important points were discussed in the meeting, on which everyone agreed. BJP’s attempt to break and buy the AAP is never going to succeed. Even if BJP succeeds in its conspiracy with other parties of the country, breaking the AAP is not only difficult but impossible. During this, the MLAs also provided their feedback about the people of Delhi, the love that the people of Delhi have always given to AAP, and even now they are giving their love and affection to CM Arvind Kejriwal and Manish Sisodia.
The AAP National General Secretary (Organisation) mentioned that Manish Sisodia is embarking on a padayatra in Delhi from 14th August. It was decided in the meeting that we will go to every assembly on foot and tell the people of Delhi the reality of BJP’s politics of stopping the work of Delhi and breaking the parties. “We will not let the BJPs conspiracy and politics of harassment succeed, which is to hurt the people of Delhi in any way. The amount of work that the AAP has done in Delhi in the last 10 years, no other party government in the whole country has done that much,” he affirmed.
Dr. Sandeep Pathak shared that this time we will fight the election in such a way that all the plans of BJP will fail. BJP did all this dirty politics only to win the election, because these people have not been able to win in Delhi till now. All the conspiracy of BJP was to win the election. Therefore, now the time has come, when the public will tell them how much they have benefited from this conspiracy. The AAP is fully prepared. This time we will teach BJP a good lesson, so that it does not dare to do this anywhere else in the country.
Regarding the Haryana assembly elections, Dr. Sandeep Pathak said that we have already held 45 public meetings in Haryana. Now meetings are going to start again in every Lok Sabha. This time bigger meetings will be held than before. We have already held a small public meeting in every village of Haryana once. The phase of these small meetings will start again. Manish Sisodia will also go to Haryana to campaign. We hope that the way the circumstances are developing, CM Arvind Kejriwal will also be out of jail soon in the coming time. This will give more strength to the party and there will be vigorous election campaigns.
On the question of the report card of MLAs in the Delhi elections after 4.5 years, Dr. Sandeep Pathak said that we are continuously holding ‘Vikas Sabhas’ (Development meetings) in Delhi. So far, ‘Vikas Sabhas’ have been done in about 25 to 30 assembly constituencies. Through these meetings, a large amount of people’s work has been done at the ground level. In the last 10 years, the AAP government has done a lot of work. We are proud of our work and we have done a lot of work in Delhi. Through Manish Sisodia’s Padyatra, we will reach every house in Delhi and more campaigns will be run in the coming time.
At the same time, AAP’s Delhi State Convenor Gopal Rai said that the main agenda of today’s meeting was to speed up the party’s preparations for the upcoming assembly elections in Delhi. After Manish Sisodia’s arrival, all the MLAs wanted to meet him. During this, Manish Sisodia gave a message to all the MLAs in the meeting that now we have to go among the public with full strength. Manish Sisodia’s padayatra will start across Delhi from August 14. We are starting preparations with full vigor. Apart from this, all our MLAs will continue to convey CM Arvind Kejriwal’s message to the public.
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