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AAP Looking For Expansion: Post Delhi Win, Kejriwal Eyeing UP’s Panchayat Elections Later This Year
Swarajya Staff
Feb 24, 2020, 10:37 AM | Updated 10:37 AM IST
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Buoyed by the big mandate the party achieved in the recently culminated Delhi Assembly elections, the Aam Aadmi Party led by Chief Minister (CM) Arvind Kejriwal has decided to expand into the State of Uttar Pradesh (UP) and contest the panchayat elections scheduled for later this year, reports The Hindu.
Senior leader of the party and its spokesperson Sanjay Singh appraised the reporters on Sunday (23 February) that AAP's workers will recruit as many as 25 lakh members by visiting as many as 1.07 lakh villages in the State of UP over the next three months.
Singh also shared that APP will carry out a membership drive in UP from 24 February to 22 March in over 12,000 wards of various cities in the State, while also putting up as many as 5,000 posters of the party in every Assembly constituency.
It should be noted that after its win in Delhi Assembly elections of 2015 as well the party had tried to expand nationally. However, then the party had failed to build any base, restricting the party's core presence to Delhi.
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