AAP to contest elections to panchayats & civic bodies

Ravi S Singh

Tribune News Service

New Delhi, July 9

To expand its base in Haryana, the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) will contest elections at all levels, including the upcoming byelection to Baroda, in the state.

“AAP will contest in the next panchayat and urban local bodies elections, besides the Assembly and parliamentary poll,” AAP Rajya Sabha member and co-incharge of Haryana Sushil Gupta said here on Thursday.

He released the list of names of new office-bearers of Palwal and Faridabad districts. “AAP has completed the process of constituting its units in all the districts of the state. The process to constitute Assembly and bloc units will be completed by September. The party is geared up to contest elections at the grass-root level,” the AAP leader said.

AAP had contested Faridabad, Karnal and Ambala Lok Sabha seats in the 2019 General Election, and 48 seats in the Assembly election the same year. The party failed to open its account in on both elections.

He said the party would announce its nominee for the Baroda bypoll after the election was announced.

The Jat-community segment fell vacant after the demise of Congress MLA Sri Kishan Hooda

The new office-bearers for Palwal district are Kuldip Kaushik (convener), Dharmendra Hindustani (organisation secretary), Satyaprakash Mittal (treasurer). Besides, Sunder Lal, Mukesh Sharma, Nepal Singh Tomar and Jagannath Sharma have been appointed vice-presidents, while Sachin Bansal secretary.

As for Faridabad, Dharamveer Bhadana has been appointed as convener, Vinod Bhatti as organisation secretary and Rajan Gupta as treasurer. The vice-presidents are Narender Saroha, Raghuvar Dayal, Hiralal Soni, YK Sharma, Sohan Raj and Kuldip Chawla. Bhim Singh Yadav is the secretary.