The state of Punjab which goes to poll next month will see a three-pronged election battle between Congress, BJP-SAD coalition and Aam Aadmi Party for its 117 seats.
In 2014, Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) surprised many by winning four parliamentary seats in Punjab.
In these assembly polls, Delhi Chief Minister and AAP Head, Arvind Kejriwal is pulling out all stops to win the election by raising funds with NRI Punjabis and also urged them with a slogan ‘Chalo Punjab’ asking them to come down to Punjab to help with election campaigning.
In response to Kejriwal’s shoutout, there are 2,500 NRIs who have come from abroad to support the party in Punjab, AAP claimed.
Non-Resident Indians like Rajveer Singh Mann and Harry Daliwal, both from Canada traded their annual holidays to come to Punjab to campaign for Kejriwal.
Arvind Kejriwal Source: Facebook/ Aam Aadmi Party
Mr Mann has been going door to door in his hometown Ludhiana to build support for AAP in Punjab.
"We see the fruits of good governance abroad and fail to believe that we can't have the same here in India," said Mr Mann to NDTV.
Meanwhile, Mr Dhaliwal is helping with the public meetings being held by AAP in Ludhiana.
"37 years ago, I had to leave my country because the values I learned here and applied... the system never gave me returns... but when I applied the same values in Canada, from a farm labourer I ended up being a judge," he told NDTV.
The Aam Aadmi Party has claimed that over 2500 NRIs have come to Punjab to help them win the elections and another plane of 90 NRIs will leave from Toronto, Canada on 19th January.
"I want to be a part of real change," Surinder Mavi, a 31-year-old who helped in organising the plane load of AAP "election volunteers", was quoted as saying by Toronto Star.
For the election, Mr Mavi will ride an AAP campaign bus that will rally support in 16 of Punjab's largest constituencies.
