Kejriwal to hold rallies in all 10 LS constituencies in Haryana

Delhi Chief Minister and AAP supremo Arvind Kejriwal, whose party has announced to contest both the Lok Sabha and the state Assembly elections in Haryana, will hold rallies covering each of the 10 Lok Sabha constituencies in the state.

Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) state unit president Naveen Jaihind said the party would hold a public rally in Gurugram on November 24.

Then on December 2, the party will hold a rally in Faridabad, followed by another one on December 3 in Narnaul, while on December 9, a rally has been planned in the Karnal Lok Sabha constituency.

The schedule for the remaining rallies will be announced later, Jaihind told reporters here Tuesday.

He also said Kejriwal will go to Sonipat on Wednesday to give ex-gratia of Rs 1 crore to the family of BSF jawan Narender Singh, who was brutally killed by Pakistani troopers along the International Border (IB) near Jammu in September.

The AAP government had earlier approved a proposal to amend a rule on giving ex-gratia of Rs 1 crore to the kin of slain security personnel to include those who have settled in the national capital after joining the service.

On September 21, Kejriwal had also visited Singh's native village.

Jaihind said Kejriwal was stopped by BJP activists from visiting a state-run dispensary at Karnal on Saturday and wondered if the M L Khattar-led dispensation "will do the same when he visits the martyr to give the ex-gratia".

"Will they stop him here too," he wondered.

The Delhi chief minister had recently written to Khattar, expressing his wish to inspect some government dispensaries of Haryana. He had also invited his Haryana counterpart to visit the "mohalla clinics" set up by the AAP dispensation to check the "ground reality" of health institutions in the national capital.

Lambasting the Khattar dispensation, Kejriwal had on Saturday said, "The Haryana chief minister is well aware that the condition of hospitals and schools in Delhi is far better than in Haryana."