The Aam Aadmi Party has begun nomination process for the State Assembly seats ahead of the lok Sabha and Assembly elections. The forms in English and Odia have been uploaded on its website od.aamaadmiparty.org.
The party has appealed to the people to give names of candidates desirous of fighting elections to clean politics. The party has vehemently mentioned that it would not allow corrupt, criminal and communal politicians to enter the State Assembly and the lok Sabha.
Hence, the candidates who seek to fight elections on AAP tickets must be strong enough to take on such candidates of other political parties, a Press release issued by the party said.It said the party would field candidates in as many Assembly seats as possible.
Informing that the collection of applications would continue for a week, it said the suitable candidates would be chosen on the basis of their backgrounds, interviews, public feedbacks and opinions of members from each constituency.
Simultaneously, the party is launching a campaign to expose the complicity of the BJD Government and Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik in the mega Rs 60,000-crore mining scam the release said.
“The State Government has admitted to the scam which accounts for Rs 1 crore per village. The party will to the people to highlight the massive fraud committed by this Government and promise them a clean political alternative which the BJP and Congress are not in a position to provide,” it added.
The party hopes to finalise its candidates’ list for lok Sabha and Assembly seats by the first week of March. The party has already announced farmers’ leader lingaraj’s name for the Bargarh lS seat. The candidates for the Bhubaneswar, Cuttack, Brahmapur, Baleswar and Dhenkanal lok Sabha seats would be published soon.