Mumbai: AAP leader Arvind Kejriwal hosted an Rs 20,000 per plate dinner for young professionals, diamond merchants and bankers here kick-starting the party’s fund-raising campaign for the Delhi assembly elections.
We collected Rs 91 lakh from the fund-raiser dinner last night. Rs 36 lakh were collected from donor passes, Rs 36 lakh was through cheque donation from those who came and our volunteers collected Rs 21 lakh,” AAP leader Preeti Sharma Menon told here today.
The Mumbai dinner had space for a maximum of 200 donors, mostly our supporters. Most of those who attended were young professionals, some diamond merchants and a few directors from Bollywood,” she said. AAP’s Maharashtra unit has a target of raising Rs 5 crore over the next two months through reach-out drives,” she said.
In the run-up to this year’s Lok Sabha elections, Kejriwal had in March hosted a fund-raising dinner in Bengaluru inviting criticism from Congress which questioned whether the AAP leader, who then also charged Rs 20,000 per person for having a meal with him, could claim to represent the common man.
After the Delhi assembly elections in December 2013, the party has so far received donations from over lakh donors. The maximum money has come from Maharashtra, followed by Delhi and Uttar Pradesh.
Bureau Report
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