Kaumudi Gurjar

Vijay Chavan

Subhash Ware

With Aam Aadmi Party

AAP

Lok Sabha

Pune Municipal Corporation

Arvind Kejriwal

Tanmay Kanitkar

Viral Khimesra

executive engineer

) having swept the Delhi elections, party volunteers from the state and the city are now excitedly coming up with plans for the future. Most significantly, the party’s city unit, after the debacle it faced in theelection, has decided to contest the municipal polls in February 2017.The party announced their agenda on Tuesday, stating that their campaign would begin officially from next Wednesday with a rally at(PMC) main building.“PMC is our next goal and all party workers and citizens’ groups will participate in ‘Swaraj Abhiyan’, said Subhash Ware, the party’s Lok Sabha candidate and national executive committee member.“We are aware of the issues that Punekars are facing. We do not have solutions yet, but we do have an agenda, starting with the anti-corruption helpline. We will also insist that the Nagar Raj Bill be passed in the state, and start empowerment centres to equip citizens with in depth knowledge of laws. We are also going to present a practical vision plan called ‘Pune Dialogue’ like we did in Delhi,” added Ware, who is also AAP’s Pune convener.There are indications that Ware will lead the party in Pune and also in all local body elections across the state. He has been off the political scene since the Lok Sabha election, but was convinced by other executive members, including, to be active in the campaigns.Pune is only one part of the party’s agenda, as their plans span across the state.“We will be conducting social audits of all infrastructural projects and cross-verify the information shared through the RTI Act,” said, member of AAP’s media cell in Maharashtra.Pointing out that the Mission Vistar programme, conducted by AAP in all 35 districts, has resulted in district level committees being formed, Ware added, “AAP recently participated in two agitations on the issues plaguing farmers in the state. We will continue to comb rural Maharashtra to voice their concerns,” said Ware.“The party has 400 volunteers in the city and with the landslide victory in Delhi, volunteers who left in the past are likely to come back,” exulted Abha Muley, secretary of the Maharashtra state executive committee, adding that Maharashtra had sent over a thousand participants to the Delhi campaign.Mirror spoke to party supporters who returned jubilant from Delhi. “We did not even have to announce our slogans — people in Delhi would announce them for us during door-todoor campaigns,” said civil engineerKishor Mujumdar, a retiredwho helped campaign in Shahdara, said, “Roadside tea vendors and autorickshaw drivers told us that during the 49 days that AAP ruled Delhi, there was no bribery. So they were sure who they wanted to vote for.”