New Delhi: Sanjay Singh, the leader of Aam Aadmi Party said during a meeting of its national executive on Saturday that his party will announce its first list of candidates for this year’s Lok Sabha elections within two weeks.
AAP’s representatives from all over the country were at the meeting along with the 23 core members of its national executive at Delhi’s Constitution Club.
Sources claimed that AAP is looking at the states of Haryana, Maharashtra, Uttar Pradesh, Karnataka and Gujarat along with Delhi to build a strong support system for the national elections, due by May.
Reports stated that party plans to field Mayank Gandhi from Maharashtra and Sanjay Singh from Uttar Pradesh while senior party leader Yogendra Yadav is likely to be its chief ministerial candidate in the assembly elections in Haryana later this year.
Notify that AAP leader Kumar Vishwas has already declared that he will contest the Lok Sabha elections against Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi from his constituency in Amethi in Uttar Pradesh.
Earlier this week, Kumar Vishwas said that he doesn’t just want to take on Gandhi in Amethi, but would also like the BJP’s prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi to join the line-up.
Digvijaya Singh, the senior leader of Congress has, however, said that he expects the national elections to be a three-way contest between the Congress, the BJP and the Aam Aadmi Party.
Shazia Ilmi said, “We have a four-tier selection process for candidates. We have hired private bodies to do background checks of all candidates. We will not contest from seats where we do not find honest candidates.”
Bureau Report
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