The Aam Aadmi Party is now engaged in spreading and deepening its roots in Pauri district even as it eyes the upcoming Uttarakhand Assembly election next year. The party will hold meetings in the Assembly constituencies in the district from March 19.
The constituencies to be covered in the first leg of the campaigning are Pauri, Dhumakot and Kotdwar and Yamkeshwar. The party will now focus on its strategy to gain maximum ground for the Assembly election aside from finalising the names of the candidates for Pauri district.
AAP Surendra Singh Chauhan said that the party will contest 40 Assembly seats in Uttarakhand in the election 2017. He further said that Uttarakhand AAP in—charge Anoop Nautiyal, Garhwal region in—charge Rakesh Negi, district convener and party members of different constituencies had participated in the AAP meeting that concluded at the party headquarters in Delhi on March 12.
Many important decision were taken in course of the meeting, he said. The party stressed that the workers should start the campaigning at the grass root levels, particularly at the levels of the booths. “We are determined to prove as the alternative to Congress and BJP in Uttarakhand,” he asserted.