JALANDHAR: Having gotten the best from Punjab in the state’s assembly elections about 100 days ago, the Aam Aadmi Party government now faces a test in terms of delivering on its promises on chief minister Bhagwant Mann’s home turf.
For the assembly polls , the party’s entire campaign was stitched around the ‘Delhi model’, but now its performance would also impact its expansion plans for other states, especially poll-bound Himachal Pradesh and Gujarat. In the assembly polls in February-March, Punjab had stunned the country by decimating traditional parties and electing fresh faces. However, now, the dynamics of the electoral battle in Sangrur bypoll, which appeared a cakewalk for AAP till a couple of weeks ago, appear to have changed at a surprising pace and scale, as SAD (Amritsar) president Simranjit Singh Mann has found a lot of traction in the last some days.
