AAP to kickstart Lok Sabha election campaign from Haryana today

AAP to kickstart Lok Sabha election campaign from Haryana today

New Delhi: AAP convener Arvind Kejriwal will kickstart the national campaign for the Lok Sabha elections from Rohtak in Haryana on Sunday. This will be his first rally after he resigned as the Delhi chief minister. The party is planning to fight all 10 Lok Sabha seats and all 90 Assembly seats in Haryana.

Rohtak is being represented by Deepender Singh Hooda, son of Haryana Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda and hopes to rout the Congress just like Delhi elections.

The AAP leadership has carefully chosen Haryana to be its next political battleground after its near stunning show in the Delhi elections in December 2013.

In the run up to the Delhi polls, the majority of the AAP volunteers came from Haryana. Its party convenor, Arvind Kejriwal too hails from Haryana.

AAP claims that winds of change that blew through Delhi are now sweeping the entire country and traditional political parties have been brought to their knees. "The ordinary people of Haryana, who were aggrieved by dynasty politics, nepotism, corruption and criminal antecedents of their political leaders, now see a ray of hope," AAP leader Rajiv Godara added.

The AAP has announced that its strategist Yogendra Yadav will contest the Lok Sabha election from Gurgaon in Haryana adjoining Delhi. He will be contesting against Rao Inderjit Singh, who will be contesting on a BJP ticket.

Yadav, who has been actively touring Haryana for over two months, is determined to expand the AAP base in the state.

The AAP leaders have attacked the Bhupinder Singh Hooda government for corruption and land scams. Hooda, who has been chief minister since March 2005, will also face the assembly polls in October.

AAP will most likely take up issues of land acquisition and Congress President Sonia Gandhi's son-in-law Robert Vadra's dealings in the state.

We cannot expect the Congress and BJP or for that the SP, BSP and Akali Dal to roll out the red carpet for the AAP who they know will replace them sooner or later. They will act like the spoilt child from whom you are taking away their favourite toy.

AAP will have to bear with this violence which is evident all over India from Punjab to Kerala and Maharashtra to the North East.

We have to show to the people the true colour of these corrupt parties.