Asserting that Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) would contest all 403 meeting seats in Uttar Pradesh, senior get together chief Sanjay Singh has mentioned it will be a mistake to contemplate AAP a minnow because it had emerged “stronger” than the Congress within the latest panchayat polls . The Arvind Kejriwal-led AAP made it clear that it’s not in talks with some other get together for an alliance within the UP meeting election due early subsequent 12 months.

“Our party is stronger than the Congress in the state. While the Congress won 40 seats in panchayat polls, we scored a victory in 83 panchayats. AAP got over 40 lakh votes in these polls, where 1600 party candidates contested,” Singh, who’s AAP’s UP incharge, advised PTI in an interview.

The Congress was decreased to seven seats within the 2017 election to the 403-member UP Assembly.

The AAP had earlier examined ballot waters within the 2014 and 2019 Parliamentary elections on some chosen seats in UP with none success.

After coming to energy in Delhi, it emerged as the principle opposition get together in Punjab and has been attempting to develop its base in different states like Goa, Uttarakhand and Gujarat.

Delhi Chief Minister Kejriwal had himself contested in opposition to Prime Minister Narendra Modi from Varanasi in 2014 and stood second forward of the Congress and the Samajwadi get together nominees.

AAP had additionally contested three seats of Saharanpur, Aligarh and Gautam Budh Nagar in UP however couldn’t do a lot.

“We are preparing to contest on all 403 seats alone. We are presently not in talks for an alliance with any other party. Our focus is to strengthen our base in the state and in the past one and a half months, we have made over one crore members,” Singh mentioned.

“The party has made Vidhan Sabha incharges in 100-150 seats and our leaders are meeting those who want to contest,” mentioned 49-year-old Singh who hails from Sultanpur in Uttar Pradesh.

Singh, who’s a Rajya Sabha MP, mentioned the principle challenge raised by the AAP within the meeting elections “will be BJP’s nationalism versus AAP’s nationalism”.

“BJP’s nationalism is fake. Its nationalism is full of hatred and communalism. At the same time, the nationalism of the AAP is providing good education, good health, free electricity,free water, women’s security and happiness,” he mentioned,He hit out on the BJP, claiming it was “afraid” of the AAP’s mannequin of governance and was indulging in vindictive politics.

“Sixteen cases including that of sedition were filed against me. I got a stay from the Supreme Court in a sedition case. The BJP is doing vindictive politics. Our office here was closed by them. We are facing them strongly,” he mentioned.

“AAP’s model of governance focuses on education, health, education and providing basic facilities to the poor and needs. Our model is an answer to casteist and communal politics played by the BJP,” Singh mentioned.

Providing jobs, unemployment allowance and higher costs to farmers are among the many points the get together will take up, he mentioned.

The consequence of the UP meeting polls is taken into account essential as it will replicate on the 2024 normal election. The opposition sees a possibility in opposition to the BJP within the bellwether state particularly because of the influence of the COVID-19 pandemic.

While the SP and BSP have already launched their election marketing campaign to woo numerous communities, the Congress beneath the management of its General Secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra is sparing no effort to revive the get together on the grassroots stage.

Hyderabad MP Asaduddin Owaisi’s AIMIM, AAP and over a dozen small caste-centric regional events have additionally introduced that they’re coming into the ring within the politically vital state.

Singh mentioned they’ll spotlight the “failures” of Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath in the course of the previous 4 and a half years.

“We are exposing them at the grassroots level. This government as promised during the polls made ‘Shamshan’ (cremation ground) in every village. In corona pandemic, every village became ‘Shamshan’ and people died without treatment and lack of medicines,” he alleged.

“The government failed to control crime and criminal activities. Incidents like Hathras and others exposed tall claims on law and order.
There are scams galore and even Kumbh and Ram Temple were not spared by scamsters,” he alleged.

In the BJP regime, the state went “backwards” as they’ve “no concept of development”, he mentioned including that with out growing the “purchasing power” of individuals there might be no financial enhance.

About the presence of Asaduddin Owaisi’s AIMIM within the UP polls and different fronts of smaller events, Singh mentioned, “Everyone has the right to contest in democracy.”

Kejriwal, who entered politics after gaining the highlight throughout Gandhian Anna Hazare’s motion for the Lokpal laws, can also be spearheading the get together’s marketing campaign in neighboring Uttarakhand, the place the AAP is projecting itself as an alternative choice to the BJP and the Congress.

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