All Charged AAP: Kejriwal's Party is Challenging Established Players, Its Eyes Fixed on 5 States
News 18The Aam Aadmi Party has worn its national ambitions on its sleeve since its birth. Aam Aadmi Party MLA Raghav Chadha, also a member of the party national executive and the powerful political affairs committee, leans on the developments in the Congress party in Goa to argue that AAP is both the opposition to the BJP and the alternative to the Congress, not just in the coastal state but across India. Punjab The current crisis in Punjab Congress confirms the reading within AAP that the party will implode and the appointment of Charanjeet Singh Channi as the state’s first Dalit chief minister is simply not enough to stem the internal haemorrhage. Sources indicate the party has no plans of announcing its chief ministerial face anytime soon: its biggest calling card in Punjab is its national convener Arvind Kejriwal and the “Kejriwal model of development”. Talk with anyone within the party, the refrain of a “fixed match” between the BJP and the Congress is the reason given for the BJP’s unchallenged rule in the state.