NEW DELHI:
After its success in the Delhi assembly polls, the AAP national executive was
meeting in New Delhi on Saturday to decide on its strategy for the Lok Sabha
elections with a senior leader saying his dream would be to see Arvind Kejriwal
as the Prime Minister. Another
AAP leader said the first list of AAP candidates for the upcoming Lok Sabha
elections should be out in 10 to 15 days.
Before
going into the meeting, AAP leader and Delhi chief minister Kejriwal said the
party is meeting to plan the strategy for Lok Sabha polls and all the issues
that are before the party. However,
there will be no discussions with regard to the names of the candidates for the
polls, he said. Speaking
to reporters, senior AAP leader Yogendra Yadav said the country must have
better options than Rahul Gandhi and Narendra Modi for the Prime Minister's
post.
Asked if
he would like to see Kejriwal as the Prime Minister he said, "We have
again and again said that Rahul and Modi's fight (for the post) is unfortunate.
The country must have better options than this. "But
are we in the position to (say that Kejriwal should occupy the post). We will
have to discuss that. My dream is to see Kejriwal as Prime Minister. He is
capable of it but in politics one has to see ....strength and where we
stand," he said.
AAP leader
Sanjay Singh said the first list of party candidates for the upcoming Lok Sabha
elections should be out in 10 to 15 days.
The
23-member AAP national executive is meeting at the Constitution Club to discuss
plans and strategies for the general elections. AAP had
bagged 28 out of 70 seats in the just-held Delhi assembly elections, riding on
its main plank of fighting against corruption and price rise.Yadav
said, "It is the first meeting of the national executive which is our
highest decision-making body of the party so the idea would be to review what
we did in Delhi and to plan for the Lok Sabha elections, to have a national
perspective."There
are also some organisation matters to be settled," Yadav said.
AP has
already decided to fight all the seats in Gujarat and will also contest in
Haryana and Uttar Pradesh.
Apart from
Delhi, key party functionaries from Maharashtra, Karnataka, Haryana and Tamil Nadu
are present at the meeting.Other than
Kejriwal, his ministerial colleague Manish Sisodia and senior party members
Yadav, Anjali Damania and Mayank Gandhi are attending the meeting.
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