Kejriwal to visit trouble-hit state today

Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal will visit Kotkapura in Punjab’s Faridkot district, which has been the nerve centre of protests over the recent incidents of sacrilege and police firing in the state, on Saturday.

Senior Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) leader Sanjay Singh, who is in-charge of the party’s Punjab affairs, said apart from meeting families of people dead in the violence, Kejriwal will also pay obeisance at the Golden Temple, the holiest shrine of Sikh religion.

Kejriwal’s visit assumes significance as AAP is eyeing the 2017 Assembly polls in the state and has re-structured its unit there. The state gave four MPs to the party in the Loksabha elections, of which two were recently suspended for “anti-party” activities. 

“Tomorrow, Arvind Kejriwal will visit Shri Harmandir Sahib, and later Kotkapura, to meet families of the people who died in violence,” Durgesh Pathak, AAP's Punjab Co-Convener, said.