Delhi Environment Minister Gopal Rai will embark on a four-day visit to Chhattisgarh on S🥃aturday to review the implementation of the AAP's expansion plan in the Congress-ruled state and induct "some prominent people" into the party.
Delhi Environment Minister Gopal Rai will embark on a four-day visit to Chhattisgarh to review the implementation of the AAP's expansion plan in the Congress-ruled state and induct some prominent people into the party.
Delhi Environment Minister Gopal Rai will embark on a four-day visit to Chhattisgarh on S🥃aturday to review the implementation of the AAP's expansion plan in the Congress-ruled state and induct "some prominent people" into the party.
The senior AAP leader will participate in a roadshow in Bilaspur, a com💟mercial centre𝓰 and business hub, on April 18.
AAP's poll strategist and newly elected Rajya Sabha member Sandeep Pathak, as we🔯ll as the party's Chhattisgarh in-charge and Burari MLA from Delhi Sanjeev Jha will join Rai in the roadshow.
Pathak, a former IIT-Delhi faculty member, hails൲ from Chhattisgarh.
"Seve🎀ral prominent people from different walks of life will joi🍎n the party on April 17," Rai told PTI.
This will be Rai's second visit to Chhattisgarh within a month after his party decided to prepare for the assembly polls in the state next year, after🉐 its stupendous victory in the Punjab assembly electionཧs.
To set in motion the ꦰAAP's poll preparations, Rai had travelled to the tribal-dominated sꦇtate last month. During the visit, he inaugurated a party office in Raipur and launched a membership drive in the state.
"Last month, we went there and took out a 🐭Vijay Yatra (victory march). After that, many people want to join our party," Rai said.
During his staꩲy in Chhattisgarh, he will hold a series of meetings with party leaders and workers to review the impleme🧸ntation of the membership drive and discuss the AAP's expansion plans.
"Thereไ are meetings with various or𒆙ganisations also," Rai said.
He said he would attend a day-long training programme organised for thꦡe party's leaders and workers on April 1꧟9.
The AAP had contested the Chhattisgarh assembly polls 💮in 2018, fielding its candidates on 85 out of a total 90 sea✃ts, but could not open its account.
Buoyed by its victory in Punja♏b, the Arvind Kejriwal-led party is hoping to expand its base in Chhattisgarh and project itself as an alternative to the BJP and the Congress in the♊ elections next year.
Rai said his party has teams "actively&quo🌄t; working on the ground in each of the 90 assembly constituencies of the stat🌄e.