Gujarat: AAP not to contest local body elections

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Party’s Delhi MLA Gulab Singh Yadav, the state in-charge of the party replacing journalist-turned-politician Ashish Khetan, candidly admitted on Thursday that the party was not in a position to fight the local body polls owing to lack of party’s network.

Yadav, who has been touring the state for the last four days to examine the political situation in the state and meeting party workers to understand the local political issues, said that the party would, however, certainly contest the assembly elections in December 2017. Yadav said that he was holding deliberations with the party workers at Lok Sabha and assembly seats level with a view to setting up party’s units in every assembly constituency with a view to mobilising people for 2017 assembly elections.

“We are currently engaged in preparing the party for the 2017 assembly elections. Being new, we will have to set up our units from the state to the booth level to fight the elections,” said Yadav. “I have been given the assignment to set up the party unit at at state and local levels in Gujarat,” said Yadav. He said that the party would hold a state-level public meeting in November end or in the beginning of December in Ahmedabad which would be addressed by party’s national leaders. Thereafter, he said the party would hold public meetings at regional levels as well.