At a show of strength ahead of the polls in Gujarat and Himachal Pradesh, AAP national convenor and Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal earlier this month accused Hiren Joshi, a senior official in the prime minister’s office, of pressuring the media into curtailing coverage of his party.
The statement has come at a time when the AAP has been trying to make a spirited entry into the political terrain of Gujarat, which has been the BJP’s fortress for nearly three decades and where Kejriwal’s party suffered a humiliating defeat in the 2017 polls.
