Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal-led Aam Adami Party (AAP) has ambitious plans in BJP’s prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi’s home turf. Buoyed with the impressive performance in Delhi in last December, the AAP has kicked off aggressive membership drive in Gujarat and set target to register 13 lakh members by the end of January.
The AAP is already setting up infrastructure keeping upcoming lok Sabha elections in mind. Apart from State headquarters in Ahmedabad, the emerging party has opened offices in 19 districts of the State. Sources in the State AAP said that in next one month another four offices would be started in Gujarat.
“Our membership strength has already crossed 1 lakh in Gujarat. We are flooded with large number inquiries from across the State. The AAP has set target to register at least 50,000 members in each of the 26 lok Sabha constituencies. It means, we would be able to register minimum 13 lakh members by the end of January,” said Sukhdev Patel, Gujarat State coordinator of the AAP.
Patel said that his party would field candidates in all the constituencies in the upcoming lok Sabha elections. Instead of chasing well-known or celebrities, AAP is in the process to scout for common men having clean image as their prospective candidates in general elections, said an office bearer of the party. He, however said, “If any well-known person with clean image wants to join party, we wouldn’t mind to take him as ‘Aam Adami’.”
A screening process has been introduced by AAP in the State to know about the newly inducted member’s credentials as well as prospective member’s political lineage, said a party leader closely associated with the membership drive.