AAP leadership in Punjab is now facing problems,Shiromani Akali ,Punjab,Congress ,Arvind Kejriwal , Aam Aadmi Party,Punjab assembly election 2017,Punjab latest news updates

AAP leadership in Punjab is now facing problems,Shiromani Akali ,Punjab,Congress ,Arvind Kejriwal , Aam Aadmi Party,Punjab assembly election 2017,Punjab latest news updates

CHANDIGARH: After being seen as the strongest political challenger in Punjab ahead of next year's assembly elections and even being touted to be the front-runner in occupying power in the state, the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) seems to be losing a bit of that steam.

The AAP leadership in the state is now grappling with problems like finding a face to project as its chief ministerial candidate, deciding on tickets for the 117 assembly seats and even keeping its leaders and flock together.

With the ruling Shiromani Akali Dal-BJP alliance and the opposition Congress sharpening their attacks on the AAP, the newest political force in Punjab is finding it difficult to keep pace with the political peak that it had attained earlier this year.

Opinion polls by private agencies, political parties and even some intelligence agencies had put AAP in the front seat as far as winning the next assembly election -- likely to be held in February 2017 -- is concerned.
The AAP was being projected as getting between 72 and 85 seats in the assembly. AAP leaders themselves started believing that the party would get over 100 seats and would do a repeat of Delhi, where it won a whopping 67 of the 70 assembly seats in the February 2015 elections.

Among other things, the AAP has not been able to announce its first list of candidates, which it had promised to announce by the last week of May or the first week of June.

AAP in-charge for Punjab Sanjay Singh had told IANS earlier that the first list of candidates would be released latest by the first week of June.

The party has now put off the release till end of this month.
src:ET

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