Kejriwal will come to meet AAP’s winning candidates

Lucknow (IANS) | AAP’s National Convener and Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal will soon visit Lucknow to meet and greet the party candidates who won the recently held Uttar Pradesh civic elections. AAP’s chief spokesperson Vaibhav Maheshwari said, “Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal will visit Lucknow by the end of this month. After the civic polls, AAP will now focus on Uttar Pradesh in view of the 2024 Lok Sabha polls.

A party leader said since Uttar Pradesh sends the maximum number of 80 MPs to Parliament, AAP’s plan for the state would be to go for the general elections.

During the campaign for the civic polls, AAP candidates focused on the party’s Delhi model of governance.

An AAP leader said the party is also planning Arvind Kejriwal’s visit to UP. But the schedule is not decided yet.

The party’s most spectacular victory has been in Rampur district, a Samajwadi Party bastion.

Party candidate Sana Khanam was elected President of Rampur Nagar Palika Parishad.

Khanum got 43,121 votes (44.19 percent of the total votes polled) to win the seat reserved for women.

Aam Aadmi Party’s Rafat Jahan has been elected president of Kemari Nagar Panchayat Rampur.

He secured 7,449 votes (52.84 per cent of the total votes polled).

According to the Uttar Pradesh State Election Commission, AAP won three municipality president seats, six nagar panchayat president seats and several wards in municipal corporations.

More than half of AAP’s winning candidates belong to minority communities.

–IANS