The Aam Aadmi Party on Sunday said that its convenor and Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal will not be contesting from Varanasi in the coming Lok Sabha elections hence the party will field a strong candidate for the seat.
Kejriwal will not contest the Lok Sabha polls, as he wants to give special focus to his state. The AAP will contest on all the Lok Sabha seats in Delhi, Punjab, Haryana and Goa. The party will contest on some seats in UP, and final modalities will be worked out by February. Apart from Varanasi, the party will contest from seats in eastern and western UP, where the organisation is strong, AAP spokesperson and Rajya Sabha MP Sanjay Singh said.
He further added that, in Delhi his party is working on education, health, farmers, power and providing drinking water. If we foray into national politics then our issues will be education for all and free education to all economically weaker sections of the society, ending unemployment and implementing the recommendations of the Swaminathan Commission.
Asking on a recent statement made by Kejriwal which says not vote for the Congress in the coming Lok Sabha elections, Singh said that, Kejriwal was quoted out of context, what he had said that in a meeting in the national capital was that if you want to defeat the BJP, then do not waste your vote by casting it in favour of the Congress. His statement was in the context of Delhi, from where the AAP is contesting on all the seats.
