AAP Decides To Go Solo In Maharashtra Assembly Polls, Denies Possibility Of Alliance With MVA

The Aam Aadmi Party on Monday decided to contest the upcoming Maharashtra Assembly elections independently and denied speculations of the party forming any electoral alliance with the Maha Vikas Aghadi.

On Monday, AAP leader Preeti Sharma Menon said that the party will contest the Maharashtra assembly polls and field candidates on all 36 seats in Mumbai.

Addressing a press conference here, she also said the Arvind Kejriwal-led AAP was part of the opposition INDI alliance, adding “the alliance was for the Lok Sabha polls and will continue to be together at the national level”.

“The AAP will contest all 36 seats in Mumbai. In the rest of Maharashtra, our colleagues and volunteers are galvanised and preparations are on in full swing,” Menon said.

AAP is a national party which under the visionary leadership of Kejriwal had emerged from a people’s movement and is now in power in Delhi and Punjab, while it has MLAs in Goa and Gujarat as well as MPs, she asserted.

In just 10 years, the AAP has demonstrated the “Delhi model” of development, under which quality education, healthcare, water and electricity is provided free to all and that too without corruption and without debt, she said.

“If Delhi and Punjab can deliver, it is due to Aam Aadmi Party’s clean politics and new political culture. The present BJP-Shinde Sena led government has zero political will for public welfare and is instead busy in wholesale corruption as they are convinced they aren’t returning to power,” she claimed.

The BJP is an anti-Maharashtra and anti-Mumbai party, while the Eknath Shinde government has no time for public welfare and is busy looting the exchequer, she alleged.

Maharashtra and its people deserve better and AAP is not just the alternative but is the solution, the party’s working president Ruben Mascarenhas said.

(with PTI inputs)