Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Singh Mann along with all MLAs of the state on Tuesday will visit New Delhi to meet AAP National Convenor Arvind Kejriwal. The Cabinet Meeting of Punjab was slated to take place on Monday i.e. today but now it has been postponed to February 13, 2025. The Punjab Cabinet Meeting has not been called for the past many months. The meeting has been called in the backdrop of the Delhi Elections 2025 setback to the Aam Aadmi Party.
As per the information received, AAP Supremo Arvind Kejriwal may take feedback from all Punjab MLAs and CM Mann during the meeting. In March 2025, the Bhagwant Mann Government will complete its three years in Punjab. Therefore, it is expected that the Punjab Government can put a stamp on big announcements during the meeting with Arvind Kejriwal. For instance, before coming into power, Aam Aadmi Party had promised to provide a monthly stipend of Rs 1,000 to women aged 18 and above. However, the party has yet to deliver it. As a result, it has often come under the scrutiny of the opposition.
It is also expected that a major rejig in Punjab's bureaucracy can take place after Arvind Kejriwal meets with Punjab MLAs and Ministers. It is pertinent to mention here that the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) was able to secure Punjab and Sikh votes in the Delhi Elections.
As per IANS, the BJP scored well in Sikh-dominated seats in the Delhi Assembly elections with wins in three out of four constituencies with more than 10 percent of voters from the community. The Assembly results declared on Saturday showed that among the Sikh-dominated seats, the BJP managed to win Rajouri Garden, Vikaspuri, and Moti Nagar while it failed to wrest Tilak Nagar from the AAP.
In the current Assembly elections, BJP’s Manjinder Singh Sira won the Rajouri Garden seat, beating AAP’s Dhanwati Chandela by 18,190 votes. In 2020, Chandela had defeated BJP’s Ramesh Khanna by 22,972 votes. Around 30 per cent of voters in the seat are Sikhs.Vikaspuri, Delhi’s largest constituency whose 13 percent of voters are Sikhs, was also won by Pankaj Kumar Singh of the BJP beat Mahinder Yadav of AAP by 6,439 votes.
Therefore, it is possible that the Arvind Kejriwal-led meeting can introspect about the strategies that they followed.