Arvind Kejriwal to go to state on Monday: ‘Gujarat will change, I’m coming’
Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal will arrive in Ahmedabad on Monday morning for a one-day go to to Gujarat forward of the 2022 meeting elections, driving on the spectacular debut efficiency of the Aam Aadmi Party within the lately held native physique polls.
In a publish in Gujarati on Twitter, Kejriwal stated, “Now Gujarat will change. Tomorrow I am coming to Gujarat, I will meet all brothers and sisters of Gujarat.”
હવે બદલાશે ગુજરાત.
કાલે હું ગુજરાત આવી રહ્યો છું, ગુજરાતના બધા ભાઈ-બહેનોને મળીશ
— Arvind Kejriwal (@ArvindKejriwal) June 13, 2021
On Monday, Kejriwal is scheduled to inaugurate the brand new state workplace of AAP Gujarat on Ashram street in Ahmedabad the place he’ll halt at Vallabh Sadan “to seek blessings of Lord Krishna”, as per an announcement by the celebration.
This is Kejriwal’s second go to to Gujarat after his celebration gained 27 out of 120 seats within the Surat Municipal Corporation (SMC) elections in 2021, consuming into the share of Gujarat’s important opposition celebration, Congress.
Kejriwal, who can be the nationwide convener of AAP, will work together with celebration staff and focus on the plan for 2022 meeting elections in Gujarat the place the newcomers will attempt to make it a three-way contest between the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), Congress and AAP.
“Arvind Kejriwal will arrive at the Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel International airport around 10.20 am on Monday and after a brief stay at the Circuit House, he will take blessings of Lord Krishna at Vallabh Sadan and then address a press conference. Later, he will also inaugurate the AAP Gujarat state office in Ahmedabad,” stated Tuli Banerjee, state media incharge, AAP Gujarat.
Making inroads
The AAP has been making an attempt to make inroads into Gujarat since its inception in 2013. In the 2014 Lok Sabha elections, AAP contested on all 26 constituencies and within the 2017 meeting elections, it fielded candidates on 29 out of 182 constituencies.
On each the events, the celebration did not win a single seat and majority of the candidates misplaced their deposits. The most variety of votes an AAP candidate acquired in 2017 meeting elections was 4,551 votes in Chhota Udepur district and in lots of seats, NOTA possibility acquired extra votes than AAP.
In 2021, led by its Gujarat president Gopal Italia, AAP fielded 469 candidates for 576 seats in six municipal companies of Ahmedabad, Vadodara, Surat, Rajkot, Jamnagar and Bhavnagar. While the celebration AAP couldn’t handle to win even a single seat within the remaining 5 companies, it gained 27 seats in Surat, changing Congress because the opposition to the ruling BJP within the Surat Municipal Corporation.
Today, the celebration claims that it has over 6,000 office-bearers in Gujarat with a unit in every taluka panchayat and district of the state.
Two-party state
Gujarat has traditionally been a two-party state, the place energy oscillated between the Congress and the BJP, which has been in energy since 1999. Apart from the 2 events, the state meeting now has two MLAs from the Bharatiya Tribal Party (BTP), one MLA from Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) and unbiased MLA Jignesh Mevani.
In 1990, then chief minister Chimanbhai Patel based Janata Dal (Gujarat), after he cut up from the Janata Dal BJP alliance in Gujarat and remained as CM from 1990 to 1995 with the assist of Congress. Later Janata Dal (Gujarat) was dissolved and merged with the Congress. Similarly, former CM Shankersinh Vaghela, as soon as a BJP man, based the Rashtriya Janata Party (RJP) and dominated as CM from 1996 to 1997. A yr later, he merged RJP with the Congress.
