Ludhiana, March 31 -- The political temperature in Ludhiana is set to soar in the coming days as the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) shifts its full focus to the high-stakes Ludhiana West assembly by-election. With top brass of the party, including national convenor and Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal, Punjab chief minister (CM) Bhagwant Mann, and AAP's Punjab in-charge Manish Sisodia, scheduled to descend on the city, Ludhiana is set to become the political epicenter of Punjab in the first week of April.

Kejriwal, Sisodia and Mann are expected to address a crucial party workers' meeting on April 1 near Village Bhanaur at Ludhiana-Ferozepur Road, where a strategy will be chalked out for the upcoming bypoll. The meeting, slated for 12 noon, wi...