New Delhi: The Congress gained the Karnataka meeting elections by promising free electrical energy, free ration, and unemployment allowance in its ballot manifesto, taking cue from the Aam Aadmi Party, Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal stated on Sunday. He stated the AAP has succeeded in its efforts to carry some change within the nation’s political discourse as different events are additionally now looking for votes on points like schooling and well being. He was addressing AAP leaders who gained seats in just-concluded Uttar Pradesh native physique elections.
“The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) has tried to change the narrative of the country’s politics. If you look at Karnataka polls, the Congress party has won on our manifesto,” Kejriwal stated.
“We said we will provide free electricity, they (Congress) also said so. We said we will provide unemployment allowance, free ration, and Rs 1,000 (per moth to women, They also said so,” he stated.
The BJP can be now making such guarantees, he stated, including, political events earlier used to hunt votes on the premise of caste and faith.
The AAP gained three Nagar Palika chairperson seats, six Nagar Panchayat chairperson seats, and 6 Nagar Nigam councillor seats apart from a number of wards within the city native physique polls that have been held in Uttar Pradesh in two phases — on May 4 and May 11.
More than half of the AAP’s victorious candidates belonged to the minority group, in accordance with the ballot outcomes accessible on the state election fee’s web site.
Kejriwal congratulated the AAP’s Uttar Pradesh unit leaders, saying it was a “difficult” election because the state is taken into account a BJP stronghold. “You worked hard and defeated the BJP, the SP, and other parties.”
Kejriwal stated the AAP leaders’ victory in a number of seats within the native physique elections is a sign that the folks of Uttar Pradesh “are ready for change”. “They want good governance and development in the state,” he added.
He stated the AAP will now deal with increasing its foothold in Uttar Pradesh and contest the subsequent meeting polls with full energy.
“We will build our organisation with the help of Sandeep Pathak (AAP national organisation secretary). We will form active committees of 10 members in every village and booth. Once our organisation is built in Uttar Pradesh, no one can stop us,” he stated. Kejriwal requested the elected representatives to work for the folks in varied sectors like well being and schooling in order that the AAP is strengthened within the state.
“All of you have got more responsibility now. If you do good work in Uttar Pradesh that fragrance will spread across the state. We will get an entry in Uttar Pradesh through you,” he added.
