Patna: Aam Aadmi Party (AAP)’ performance in this year’s Delhi assembly elections and it’s victory prospect could have a direct impact on Bihar. Arvind Kejriwal’s party is eyeing state elections in Bihar, to be held in the next seven to eight months, after the Delhi assembly polls.
The AAP though had failed to find space in the Grand Alliance (GA) in the 2019 Lok Sabha elections and contested three seats of Kishanganj, Bhagalpur and Sitamarhi without any success as the NDA attained a lot in polls.
In the 2015 assembly election in Bihar, it did not contest but backed the anti-BJP group. And in the 2014 Lok Sabha elections, the AAP had contested 39 of the 40 seats in Bihar but couldn’t win any.
AAP’s Bihar chief Shatrughan Sahu states the party has decided it will contest all the seats in Bihar on its own in the upcoming assembly elections.
Sahu states How the party has been strengthening the organisation’s presence at the grassroots level through the ongoing ‘Jan Samvad Yatra’ or People’s Dialogue March.
“We have not got much media attention but the support of the masses has been very encouraging,” said Sahu.
Sahu said that the ‘Jan Samvad Yatra’ has already covered 26 districts of the state and will restart from February 20 to cover the remaining areas.
Arvind Kejriwal, Bihar in-charge of AAP Sanjay Singh and other senior leaders will be spending a lot of time in Bihar this year.
“Bihar CM questioned the AAP’s work on education, roads and health. It is now our turn to show the reality. We have already been focusing on education and health, two key sectors that touch the lives of the common man,” the AAP said.
“We will just present the ground reality before the people,” he said.
