Rejoicing at the electoral reverses faced by both Congress and BJP in the recently concluded Panchayat elections in Haridwar, the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) has said that these elections have proved that people of the State are fed up with both of these parties.
Addressing the newsmen at the party office here on Friday the State party in charge of AAP, Vivek Yadav said that things are conducive in the State for AAP which appears to be scouting for a viable third alternative.
He said that the BJP has failed in its duty of being the major opposition party while the AAP workers are continuously fighting for the cause of the people of the state. Yadav cited active participation of AAP workers in agitation to protect the tea estate and Nari Niketan case as evidence of action on ground by the AAP workers.
Yadav said AAP is ready to fill the political vaccum created by the BJP and Congress in the state. He informed that the party would start a state wide agitation on the issues of public interest in the state and said that a Sangharsh Samiti under the leadership of Anoop Nautiyal would be constituted soon. The AAP is also planning to fight for the cause of rural people of Uttarakhand facing monkey and wild boar menace.
Yadav said that the party would initiate a green politics in the state and hopes to involve famous environmentalist Sundar lal Bahuguna in the agitation to save the forests of the state from what he alleged exploitation of the corporate. He informed that the party is in process of finalizing the organization of the party and added that party cadre is focused for the assembly elections slated in the year 2017.
The press conference was attended by the AAP leader Anoop Nautiyal, state treasurer Ranbir Chaudhary and others.