Punjab Elections 2022: Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) official and Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal, visiting Punjab, made several important health system-related announcements today at a press conference in Ludhiana.
The legislative elections in Punjab are due to take place next year, political parties are making permutations and combinations to present themselves as the best alternative.
While the drama is pretty much alive under the current Congressional regime in Punjab, with Captain Amarinder Singh resigning as chief minister, Dalit Sikh Charanjit Singh Channi has been appointed new CM and Navjot Singh Sidhu resigning as chief. The state of Congress after being recently high, AAP is making inroads with voters.
Presenting Delhi as a model state, Arvind Kejriwal made six poll pledges, with health as one of their priorities, to be kept if the AAP is elected to power.
The six promises of Arvind Kejriwal to the inhabitants of the Punjab:
- Free and quality care for all.
- All drugs, tests, operations will be free.
- Health cards will be given to everyone.
- 16,000 Pind / Mohalla clinics will be opened.
- New world-class public hospitals will be built, old ones will be renovated.
- All road accident victims will be treated free of charge.
AAP Chief Minister Candidate
AAP national official Arvind Kejriwal in Ludhiana, when asked about the party’s CM face for the Punjab Elections 2022, did not give a clear answer and said the party would project a “good CM face”.
“I’ve said over and over that when the time comes we will give you a good CM face, it could be anyone. We’re not thinking about that right now,” he said.
Meanwhile, Arvind Kejriwal also congratulated Bhagwant Mann who shared the stage with him.
Navjot Singh Sidhu in AAP
After Navjot Singh Sidhu resigned from his post in the CCP Congress, speculation has arisen that he may also join the Aam Aadmi Party. Arvind Kejriwal shrugged off such speculation about Sidhu joining the AAP.
“It’s a hypothetical question, if something like this happens we’ll tell you first,” Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal said.
“Punjab formed the Congressional government with high hopes. But today they laughed at the government. A dirty power struggle is underway. All their leaders want to become CM. There is so much infighting. that the government has disappeared, “he added.
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