AAP’s Key Rejig After Delhi Ballot Debacle: Manish Sisodia, Saurabh Bhardwaj Get Main Celebration Posts — Verify | India Information

New Delhi: The Aam Aadmi Celebration (AAP) effected a significant overhaul within the get together’s organisational construction on Friday, changing incumbent Delhi unit chief Gopal Rai with Saurabh Bharadwaj and transferring the previous to Gujarat. 

The large shake-up and re-structuring of the get together’s state chiefs and in-charges come within the wake of AAP’s debacle in Delhi Meeting polls. The choice to reallocate the get together’s high leaders to states like Punjab, Gujarat and Chhattisgarh was taken on the Political Affairs Committee (PAC), the best decision-making physique of the Arvind Kejriwal-led get together.

The get together has introduced new get together chiefs in two states and in-charges in 4 states. Gopal Rai would be the get together’s in-charge for Gujarat whereas Durgesh Pathak will serve within the capability of co-convenor. Sandeep Pathak has been given cost of Chhattisgarh whereas Mehraj Mallik has been made Jammu and Kashmir chief.

Among the many most noticeable modifications is former Delhi Deputy CM Manish Sisodia being moved to Punjab, to strengthen the get together’s base and hold its solely citadel from falling. Manish Sisodia, being the closest aide of Arvind Kejriwal is more likely to work carefully with the get together’s state convenors and office-bearers to implement AAP supremo’s views and targets within the state.

He will even hold watch on the Punjab authorities’s ballot guarantees and their implementation. Recently, the Bhagwant Mann authorities has been beneath fireplace for not fulfilling AAP’s ballot guarantees. Sisodia’s Punjab shift can be seen as a transfer to ascertain sturdy communication channels between the get together’s Punjab unit and the central management in Delhi. After shedding the Delhi battleground, the AAP is eyeing its electoral possibilities in Gujarat and Goa, the 2 states the place it managed to safe reasonable vote share earlier.

In Gujarat, AAP received 5 seats within the final Meeting elections. Gopal Rai and Durgesh Pathak will reassess the bottom join within the state and put together the get together for the subsequent Meeting elections in 2027.

In Goa, AAP has two legislators. Right here additionally, AAP has maintained a vote share of above 5 per cent and can look to consolidate the general public assist additional. Sandeep Pathak, being shifted from Gujarat to Chhattisgarh assumes significance as he was instrumental in cultivating and drawing folks’s assist for AAP within the 2022 polls.