The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) on Saturday formally launched its campaign for the 2027 Punjab Assembly elections from Ludhiana, with chief minister Bhagwant Mann unveiling the party’s election pamphlet at the Pakhowal Road Indoor Stadium.
Recalling the AAP government’s first cabinet decision in 2022, Mann said the government had decided to provide 300 units of free electricity to eligible households from July 1 that year. Statewide campaign to focus on govt’s work Outlining the party’s statewide door-to-door campaign starting September 20, Mann said the AAP would take details of the government’s work directly to people across the state and seek their feedback on what more needed to be done. Mann criticised opposition parties over the issue of drugs in Punjab. “Those who were part of governments under which the drug menace flourished are now attempting to portray themselves as its solution. The people of Punjab clearly remember and can well distinguish between political rhetoric and actual work on the ground. He also highlighted measures taken to strengthen the state’s power infrastructure, including the acquisition of the Goindwal Sahib thermal power plant.
Mann said lakhs of AAP workers would distribute the party’s pamphlet door-to-door across the state and urged people to support what he described as an honest government. Targeting the Congress, Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) and Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), Mann said the return of these traditional parties to power would put at risk the gains made in free electricity, canal water for farmers, daytime power supply, government jobs without bribes, women’s financial assistance, healthcare, government schools and social security. Those who brought drugs to Punjab are now carrying out a ‘nasha mukt yatra’,” he said. Taking aim at the Congress, BJP and SAD, the CM said opposition parties should present their own programmes and policies instead of only criticising the state government.
