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]]>Sisodia also chastised the BJP for ‘misusing’ government agencies, saying that the party had utilized the Enforcement Directorate and the Central Bureau of Investigation to ‘intimidate MCD (Municipal Corporation of Delhi) personnel so that the civic polls may be postponed.’
The BJP criticized Arvind Kejriwal for ‘starving local bodies’ of finances on Friday. Aadesh Gupta, the Delhi unit chairman, and Smriti Irani, a federal minister, alleged the Kejriwal government owed civic entities in the centre of the country $13,000 crore. “Kejriwal is depriving local bodies of finances, which is undermining democracy at the roots,” Smriti Irani remarked.
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]]>Delhi CM and AAP National Convener Arvind Kejriwal tweeted, stating the lead, “Iss Inquilab ke liye Punjab ke logon ko bahut bahut badhai (congratulations to the people of Punjab for this revolution).”
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Officials from the National Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) and the National Vector Borne Disease Control Program will also attend the meeting (NVBDCP). Every year, when the monsoon arrives, the city experiences a dengue outbreak, which usually ends when the winter season arrives. However, the city has seen a significant increase in cases this year, which is still ongoing.
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]]>The party held its national council’s annual meeting on Saturday, when a 34-member executive council was elected. Sunday, it held the first meeting of the newly-elected executive council. Both meetings were held through a video conference facility.
The decision comes at a time when the party is expanding its wings beyond the national capital and preparing for assembly elections in six states – Punjab, Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Himachal Pradesh, Goa and Gujarat – in the next two years. Delhi also goes to the municipal polls next year with the three civic bodies in the city currently ruled by the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). Earlier this year, the AAP won 27 seats in the municipal polls in Gujarat’s Surat. It continues to be the ruling party in Delhi, having won 62 out of 70 assembly constituencies in the February 2020 assembly polls. It is also the principal opposition party in Punjab.
In January this year, the party held its previous national council meeting, which was delayed because of the Covid-19 pandemic. In that meeting, it passed resolutions extending tenures for the posts of national convenor and secretary from three years to five years, and removed a provision which prohibited re-election of the same person in these posts for more than two consecutive terms.
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]]>Kejriwal, who is on a day-long visit to Dehradun, said people of Uttarakhand don’t want politicians but a patriot like Kothiyal who has fought for the country …who still carries two bullets in his body and one who has played a major role in the reconstruction of Kedarnath after the 2013 tragedy.
Sometime back, Manish Sisodia [deputy CM, Delhi] had come here to find out who the people wanted as their CM. We carried out surveys regarding our CM candidate. And we got an overwhelming response for Col Kothiyal as the CM face,” he said, adding, “So it is the choice of the people of Uttarakhand.”
Col Ajay Kothiyal (Retd) said it is a matter of pride for him that the party has given them the responsibility to lead it in the coming elections. Recalling his role in the reconstruction of Kedarnath, he said nothing is impossible if one is determined.
“If we want to do something good in the state, we have to bring AAP model of governance here. I was impressed by this model and that is why I joined AAP,” he said.
Later, Kejriwal and Col Ajay Kothiyal participated in a roadshow, Devbhoomi Sankalp Yatra, from Ghantaghar to Dilaram Chowk in Dehradun.
Kothiyal joined AAP in April this year in the presence of the party’s state unit president SS Kaler in Haridwar. The party, which would be contesting on all the 70 seats in the state assembly, is banking on his army background and his popularity to work in its favour.
With less than a year left for the state assembly elections, AAP is pulling out all stops in wooing the public. On his last visit on July 11, Kejriwal announced 300 units of free electricity to domestic consumers if AAP came to power. He stressed on replicating AAP’s Delhi model of governance in Uttarakhand. He had said if voted to power, his party will bring a major change in the schools and health infrastructure.
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]]>“Our main opponent, the AAP, has always respected my agenda and efforts for Punjab. Be it before 2017 when I addressed Beadbi, Drugs, Farmers Issues, Corruption, and Power Crisis Faced by People of Punjab, or now when I propose “Punjab Model. It is evident who is truly working for Punjab,” Sidhu stated in a tweet.
Together with the tweet, Sidhu included a video of AAP politician Sanjay Singh thanking the Congress leader and his wife for speaking out against concerns in the region such as the narcotics mafia and “corruption” during the former SAD-BJP administration.
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