A month after the Aam Aadmi Party’s thumping victory in Punjab, former Congress leaders and founding members of the Haryana Democratic Front (HDF), Nirmal Singh and Chitra Sarwara, are all set to hitch the AAP in New Delhi on Thursday.

A high AAP chief confirmed that the father-daughter duo will likely be becoming a member of the get together fold formally within the presence of AAP’s nationwide convener and Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal or another senior chief. Local leaders from the HDF stated the duo will depart for the nationwide capital with get together office-bearers and merge their two-year-old entrance with the AAP.

Scores of banners and flags bearing photographs of the duo and AAP’s central and state management will likely be positioned on NH-44 from Ambala Cantonment until Singhu Border, individuals privy with the event stated.

There is a powerful buzz that Nirmal, a former income minister, might be given necessary duty in North Haryana and Chitra a senior place within the state. On this, the AAP chief quoted above stated, “We are yet not sure on this, but they are active leaders and will be given a good responsibility.”

This improvement comes days after former Congress state president Ashok Tanwar additionally joined the AAP amid the get together’s ongoing energetic membership drive in Haryana.

Nirmal is a four-time MLA from the Naggal constituency in Ambala and has a major base in northern districts like Ambala, Panchkula, Kurukshetra, Yamunanagar, and Kaithal. He was searching for a Congress ticket for his daughter from Ambala Cantonment towards sitting MLA and residential minister Anil Vij within the 2019 meeting elections, however was denied.

Irked over the choice, each Nirmal and Chitra contested unsuccessfully as independents from City and Cantonment constituencies. However, they gained a sizeable vote share.

In March 2020, weeks earlier than the pandemic hit the nation, the HDF was launched in Ambala with a give attention to the problems of northern Haryana. Later in December, the entrance confronted its first electoral take a look at within the municipal company elections, however did not garner assist and gained simply two seats within the 20-ward House. HDF actively supported the farmers’ agitation towards three farm legal guidelines.

Political observers consider that, not like Punjab, the electoral politics in Haryana is ruled by the Jats’ votes and it will likely be attention-grabbing to see if Bhupinder Singh Hooda, former chief minister and a Jat face, is given cost of the state by the Congress or not.