MUMBAI: Aam Admi Party (AAP) announced that it will go solo and will contest all 36 seats in the city in the upcoming assembly . The party said that similarly, they will decide at the state level.
AAP was part of INDIA alliance partners, Congress, Shiv Sena UBT and NCP (SP) in Maharashtra during the recent parliament election and campaigned for the candidates, although they had not contested any seat in the state.
“We are the third largest party in the country. We were gearing up for the BMC election and continuing our preparation for the assembly election. We have a good support base in the city, as people recall that during the last INDIA alliance rally in the city attended by our party Convenor Arvind Kejriwal , AAP supporters were the largest in number,” said Preeti Sharma Menon, Mumbai President of AAP, in a press conference in the presence of around hundreds of party workers.
She stated that the party has had no discussion with MVA leaders related to seat sharing or alliance for the assembly in Maharashtra. When asked if AAP will hurt MVA or BJP-Mahayuti vote bank , Preeti said that BJP’s vote bank will be hurt the most due to AAP contesting the election. The party said that they secured 2.7 lakh votes during the 2014 parliament election, emphasising the party’s presence in the city.
“It was our initial days, now we are an established party at the national level and our performance will prove as people are fed up with corruption in the BMC as well as in the state and they want a better alternative. We are providing better governance in Delhi and Punjab, similarly, we can do in Maharashtra too,” said Ruben Mascarenhas of AAP.
AAP claims that it is a party of activists and they think that the educated class, upset with the corruption in the BMC and state, will support them to win seats.
The party’s press release said, “The present BJP-Shinde Sena led ‘Khoke Sarkar’ has zero political will for public welfare and is instead busy in wholesale corruption, as they are convinced that they aren’t returning to power. The Eknath Shinde govt is nothing but the organised loot of the state exchequer. Not only has the BJP-Shinde Sena committed a fraud on the constitution, its failure on all fronts is a fraud on the people of Maharashtra.”
AAP was part of INDIA alliance partners, Congress, Shiv Sena UBT and NCP (SP) in Maharashtra during the recent parliament election and campaigned for the candidates, although they had not contested any seat in the state.
“We are the third largest party in the country. We were gearing up for the BMC election and continuing our preparation for the assembly election. We have a good support base in the city, as people recall that during the last INDIA alliance rally in the city attended by our party Convenor Arvind Kejriwal , AAP supporters were the largest in number,” said Preeti Sharma Menon, Mumbai President of AAP, in a press conference in the presence of around hundreds of party workers.
She stated that the party has had no discussion with MVA leaders related to seat sharing or alliance for the assembly in Maharashtra. When asked if AAP will hurt MVA or BJP-Mahayuti vote bank , Preeti said that BJP’s vote bank will be hurt the most due to AAP contesting the election. The party said that they secured 2.7 lakh votes during the 2014 parliament election, emphasising the party’s presence in the city.
“It was our initial days, now we are an established party at the national level and our performance will prove as people are fed up with corruption in the BMC as well as in the state and they want a better alternative. We are providing better governance in Delhi and Punjab, similarly, we can do in Maharashtra too,” said Ruben Mascarenhas of AAP.
AAP claims that it is a party of activists and they think that the educated class, upset with the corruption in the BMC and state, will support them to win seats.
The party’s press release said, “The present BJP-Shinde Sena led ‘Khoke Sarkar’ has zero political will for public welfare and is instead busy in wholesale corruption, as they are convinced that they aren’t returning to power. The Eknath Shinde govt is nothing but the organised loot of the state exchequer. Not only has the BJP-Shinde Sena committed a fraud on the constitution, its failure on all fronts is a fraud on the people of Maharashtra.”
Source Agencies
