Kejriwal to meditate in Himachal from Aug 1 to 12 for ‘recharge’ via Vipassana

Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) convener Arvind Kejriwal is headed for a 12-day meditation camp near McLeodganj, 6km from Dharamshala, in Himachal Pradesh from August 1. AAP’s national organisation-building team head Durgesh Pathak, who is steering the Punjab poll preparations, confirmed the trip and will be accompanying the Delhi chief minister for the Vipassana centre retreat

As the Punjab poll campaign gathers heat, Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) convener Arvind Kejriwal is headed for a 12-day meditation camp near McLeodganj, 6km from Dharamshala, in Himachal Pradesh from August 1. AAP’s national organisation-building team head Durgesh Pathak, who is steering the Punjab poll preparations, confirmed the trip and will be accompanying the Delhi chief minister for the Vipassana centre retreat.

Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) convener Arvind Kejriwal is headed for a 12-day meditation camp near McLeodganj, 6km from Dharamshala, in Himachal Pradesh from August 1. (Raj K Raj/HT File Photo)

Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal in a yoga session in Bengaluru in March last year.

A senior Punjab AAP core team member said it was a recharge trip ahead as the poll campaign gets more taxing in the coming months. Punjab assembly polls are due early next year, in hardly six months now.