AAP to contest 2022 Uttar Pradesh assembly elections, announces Arvind Kejriwal
New Delhi/IBNS: In a bid to expand his Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) in north India, Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Tuesday announced his political outfit will contest the next assembly elections in Uttar Pradesh.
The next Uttar Pradesh polls are scheduled to be held in 2022.
"Ever since the AAP came to power for the third time in Delhi, people from Uttar Pradesh, who are staying in the national capital, are suggesting us to contest the polls in the northern state," said Kejriwal.
"People from Uttar Pradesh have been saying they should also avail benefits given by the AAP in Delhi. They believe people are done with the older parties and will embrace the AAP in Uttar Pradesh," he added.
Kejriwal's AAP stormed to power in 2012 with an anti-corruption movement against the then Congress government, which was led by late Sheila Dikshit.
In 2020, the AAP returned to power for the third term decimating Prime Minister Narendra Modi's Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), riding on developmental agendas.
Besides Delhi, the AAP is also prevalent as an opposing force to the Congress in Punjab.
In Uttar Pradesh, which was once dominated by the Samajwadi Party (SP) and Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP), is now under the grip of Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath-led BJP, which won 325 of 403 assembly seats in 2017.
In the 2014 and 2019 Lok Sabha polls, the BJP had almost wiped out any opposition parties from the state.
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