Overview
- Arvind Kejriwal is on a three-day visit to Gujarat to strengthen AAP ahead of next year’s assembly election.
- AAP alleges the BJP-led state government withdrew permission for an Ahmedabad workers’ event, with police visiting the venue at night and the owner pressured, and says the meet was relocated.
- Kejriwal accused the BJP of three decades of misrule in Gujarat, alleging pervasive corruption and intimidation of critics.
- According to AAP, a booth workers’ meeting went ahead in Sanand after the originally planned Nikol venue was not allowed.
- The party says its conventions are proceeding, with a central-zone gathering for Ahmedabad, Kheda, Gandhinagar and Surendranagar, and an eastern-zone session in Vadodara for Anand, Vadodara, Dahod, Panchmahals and Chhota Udepur.