AAP will fight on all seats in UP assembly elections, no talks for any alliance: Sanjay Singh
Stating that the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) will contest all 403 assembly seats in Uttar Pradesh, senior party leader Sanjay Singh has said that it would be a mistake to underestimate AAP as it compared the Congress in the recent panchayat elections. Strong”. . Arvind Kejriwal-led AAP made it clear that it is not in talks with any other party for an alliance in the UP assembly elections due early next year.
Singh said, “Our party is stronger than the Congress in the state. While the Congress won 40 seats in the panchayat elections, we won 83 panchayats. AAP got more than 40 lakh votes in these elections, where the party 1600 candidates contested the election.” You are in-charge of UP, told PTI in an interview.
In the 2017 elections, the Congress was reduced to seven seats for the 403-member UP Assembly.
AAP had earlier tested the electoral waters in the 2014 and 2019 parliamentary elections in select seats in UP without any success.
After coming to power in Delhi, it emerged as the main opposition party in Punjab and is trying to expand its base in other states like Goa, Uttarakhand and Gujarat.
Delhi Chief Minister Kejriwal himself had contested against Prime Minister Narendra Modi from Varanasi in 2014 and finished second to candidates from the Congress and the Samajwadi Party.
AAP also contested three seats in UP’s Saharanpur, Aligarh and Gautam Budh Nagar, but could not do much.
He said, “We are preparing to contest all 403 seats alone. At present we are not in talks for an alliance with any other party. Our focus is on strengthening our base in the state and in the last one and a half months we have won strengthened its position.” One crore members,” Singh said.
49-year-old Singh, who hails from Sultanpur in Uttar Pradesh, said, “The party has made assembly in-charges for 100-150 seats and our leaders are meeting those who want to contest.”
Singh, who is a Rajya Sabha MP, said the main issue raised by the AAP in the assembly elections would be “BJP’s nationalism versus AAP’s nationalism”.
“BJP’s nationalism is fake. Its nationalism is full of hatred and communalism. Also, AAP’s nationalism is providing good education, good health, free electricity, free water, women’s safety and happiness,” he said. Hitting out at the BJP, he claimed that it is “afraid” of the AAP’s model of governance and is playing the politics of vengeance.
He said, “Sixteen cases including sedition were registered against me. I got a stay from Supreme Court in one case of sedition. BJP is doing politics of vendetta. Our office here was closed by them. We face them firmly. are doing.”
Singh said, “AAP’s model of governance is focused on education, health, education and providing basic amenities to the poor and needy. Our model is a response to the casteist and communal politics played by the BJP.”
He said that providing jobs, unemployment allowance and better prices to farmers are among the issues that the party will take up.
The result of the UP assembly elections is considered important as it will reflect on the 2024 general election. The opposition sees an opportunity especially against the BJP in the Belvedere state due to the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic.
While SP and BSP have started their election campaign to woo different communities, Congress under the leadership of General Secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra is leaving no stone unturned to revive the party at the grassroots level.
Hyderabad MP Asaduddin Owaisi’s AIMIM, AAP and over a dozen smaller caste-centric regional parties have also announced that they are entering the ring in the politically important state.
Singh said he would highlight the “failures” of Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath during the last four-and-a-half years.
“We are exposing them at the grassroots level. As promised during the election, this government built ‘shamshan’ (crematorium) in every village. In the corona pandemic, every village became a ‘crematorium’ and people were without treatment and medicines. died.” He alleged.
“The government failed to control crime and criminal activities. Incidents like Hathras and others exposed tall claims on law and order.
Scams are rife and even Kumbh and Ram temple have not been spared by scamsters.”
He said that under the BJP rule, the state “went behind” as they have “no concept of development”, adding that there would be no economic boost without increasing the “purchasing power” of the people.
On the presence of Asaduddin Owaisi’s AIMIM on the UP elections and other fronts of smaller parties, Singh said, “Everyone has the right to fight in a democracy.”
Kejriwal, who entered politics after making headlines during Gandhian Anna Hazare’s movement for a Lokpal law, is also spearheading the party’s campaign in neighboring Uttarakhand, where AAP is projecting itself as an alternative to the BJP and the Congress. has been
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