After trying Luck in Gujarat : AAP now ready to contest election from 100 Local constituencies in Ghaziabad.
<p>Just after trying its luck in Gujarat and Himachal Pradesh Assembly election and Buoyed by its performance in the Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) elections, the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) has decided to contest in all the 100 wards of the Ghaziabad municipal corporation for the upcoming local body polls. If talking about 2017 election the party contested elections with 82 seats, but failed to win. But according to the party members, the results in Delhi Municipal elections and the way they have worked for the Gujarat assembly election would help them for the election to be contested in Uttar Pradesh. While talking about the same Sachin Sharma, AAP’s Ghaziabad district president said, “In 2017, we gave tickets to 82 candidates for the corporation and none of them secured a win. Our mayoral candidate also lost. However, this time we are far more organized and will contest all the 100 seats for the post of councilors and also for the mayoral seat in Ghaziabad. Sharma said that the </p>
06:07 PM Dec 09, 2022 IST
Just after trying its luck in Gujarat and Himachal Pradesh Assembly election and Buoyed by its performance in the Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) elections, the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) has decided to contest in all the 100 wards of the Ghaziabad municipal corporation for the upcoming local body polls.
If talking about 2017 election the party contested elections with 82 seats, but failed to win. But according to the party members, the results in Delhi Municipal elections and the way they have worked for the Gujarat assembly election would help them for the election to be contested in Uttar Pradesh. While talking about the same Sachin Sharma, AAP’s Ghaziabad district president said, “In 2017, we gave tickets to 82 candidates for the corporation and none of them secured a win. Our mayoral candidate also lost. However, this time we are far more organized and will contest all the 100 seats for the post of councilors and also for the mayoral seat in Ghaziabad. Sharma said that the AAP has also formed a strategy to strengthen their organization and will welcome dissidents and leaders from the other parties.
“This way, we will allow our organization to grow further and suitable candidates who join us from other parties may also be offered tickets. We will improve healthcare facilities and schools and also focus on cleanliness if voted to power,” Sharma added. The ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), however, rejected AAP’s claims of doing well in the Ghaziabad local body polls. “Our party has no major opposition and we will surely come out with flying colors. The issues in the MCD elections in the national capital and the ones in Ghaziabad are different,” said Sanjeev Sharma, BJP’s Ghaziabad city president.
To be sure, the BJP has bagged the seat of Ghaziabad mayor for successive terms since 1994, when the status of the municipal board was upgraded to corporation. “During the last elections in 2017, we fielded around 50 candidates in as many wards, but this time we will contest in all the 100 wards as well as the mayoral seat. Our main contest is with the BJP, whose presence is restricted in urban segments. The AAP has no presence here,” said Virender Jatav, BSP’s Ghaziabad district president.
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