AAP woos disgruntled Raj Cong, BJP leaders

Express News Service

JAIPUR:  The Punjab triumph has given impetus to the Aam Aadmi Party’s ‘mission expansion’. While the Arvind Kejriwal-led celebration’s instant precedence is Gujarat, the place elections are due later this yr, it additionally has eyes set on Rajasthan, which is able to go to polls in 2023.

With practically 18 months in its fingers to broaden the celebration organisation within the state, the AAP held a one-day staff’ convention in capital Jaipur, the place lots of of individuals joined the celebration. While that was the start of the try and create a mass base, the AAP has additionally given an open invitation to disgruntled leaders within the BJP, Congress and the BSP to come back and be a part of Kejriwal-led celebration.

The AAP has no well-known face as a frontrunner in Rajasthan and is hoping to draw some large names because it started its preparations for the polls. The celebration has additionally determined to reconstitute its Rajasthan unit with contemporary and energetic younger faces over the subsequent few months.

Announcing that every one “good people” had been welcomed into the AAP fold, the celebration’s Rajya Sabha MP Sanjay Singh mentioned on the convention, “We don’t have to stop or get tired now… After Punjab, now our next stop is Rajasthan.”

Talking to the media earlier, he claimed that many state leaders of the Congress and the BJP had been in contact with AAP. “We have taken care even in the states where assembly polls were held recently that there is no compromise on the image, that the new faces do not carry any baggage. This will be taken care of in Rajasthan, too,” Singh mentioned.

Vinay Mishra, MLA from Dwarka in Delhi, has been made election in-charge of Rajasthan. The blueprint is being made to organize the celebration for the elections. The AAP’s focus might be first on these areas the place persons are offended with each the Congress and the BJP. Mishra mentioned the 2 events – Congress and BJP – had a pact to loot the state alternately. “In the next six months, you will see a change in the work of the party,” he mentioned.