Chandigarh: Delhi Chief Minister and AAP convenor Arvind Kejriwal on Thursday took out a victory march from Aroma Light of Sector 22 to Light of Sector 23 in Chandigarh to celebrate its victory in the Chandigarh municipal polls.
On this occasion, the newly elected councillors were sworn in. The councillors swore, "I will never let him break the trust that the people of Chandigarh have bestowed in me. I will work sincerely. I will never take a bribe. I will not do any wrong and will not allow anyone to do wrong. Aam Aadmi Party is like my mother. The people of Chandigarh are my family. The trust that the people of Chandigarh have given by voting for my party and me. I will never break it. I will never leave the Aam Aadmi Party. I will never betray my Chandigarh family and you. If I do this then people of Chandigarh should not vote for me again."
The Delhi CM reminded the councillors that they won their seats because the people of Chandigarh noted the admirable work done by the Kejriwal government in the national capital. "If Chandigarh has put their trust in the Aam Aadmi Party candidates by defeating them, they will have to serve them day and night. We got votes in Chandigarh because of Delhi's work," he said.
Kejriwal congratulated the people of Chandigarh for bringing in a new government and showing it to the Indian voters in the rest of the country that old parties like the BJP and the Congress can be defeated.
Kejriwal said that political fights are common during elections. However, now there will be no discrimination and the AAP vowed to make the city of Chandigarh beautiful again.
The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) released the sixth list of eight more candidates for the 2022 Punjab Assembly polls.
With this, the total number of candidates announced by Punjab's main opposition party has reached 96.
According to the latest list, Amarpal Singh will contest from Sri Hargobindpur and Jasbir Singh will fight from Amritsar West.
Jeevanjot Kaur will contest from Amritsar East seat. Currently, Punjab Congress chief Navjot Singh Sidhu is a legislator from Amritsar East.
Gurinder Singh will contest from Amloh, Narinderpal Singh from Fazilka, Preetpal Sharma from Gidderbaha, Sukhvir Singh from Maur and Mohammad Zamil-Ur-Rehman from Malerkotla, according to the AAP's list.
The Punjab Assembly has 117 seats and its term will end in March 2022.
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Meanwhile, two farmers' organizations of Punjab, who have announced to contest the elections, have started a show of strength. A huge crowd of farmers gathered at the award ceremony on Thursday.
At the event, farmer leader Balbir Singh Rajewal, who became the CM face on behalf of the United Samaj Morcha, said that the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) is bloated with the victory in the Chandigarh Municipal Corporation elections. The AAP owes its victory in the Chandigarh municipal polls to the farmers' movement, he added.
"People in the country are now bored with traditional parties like Congress-BJP," he said.
According to sources, there are talks of alliance between farmers and AAP.
