Monday, August 13th, 2018
AAP Plans to Contest Around 100 Seats in 2019, Focusing on Delhi, Haryana, Punjab
The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) intends to fight the 2019 Lok Sabha election in a more targeted way, putting up candidates in about 100 seats and concentrating mainly on Punjab, Haryana and Delhi in north India. In the 2014 general election the party fielded more than 400 candidates nationwide but won only four seats, all in Punjab. Where the party will contest AAP’s Rajya Sabha MP Sanjay Singh, who is in charge of the party’s units in Uttar Pradesh and Bihar, said the party saw no sense in contesting everywhere.Read More