Having won a massive 62 seats and forming the Government for the third time in a row, the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) is now planning to expand its reach nationwide. The party's senior leader Gopal Rai on Sunday formulated a three-point action plan with a tagline "Join AAP for Nation Building" campaign to expand nationally.
Senior AAP leader and Delhi Minister convened a meeting of the State office bearers and in-charges in the Chief Minister's residence in Delhi to deliberate upon the party's future plans to expand nationwide. The meeting was held after the oath-taking ceremony of Arvind Kejriwal as the Chief Minister of Delhi third time consecutively and other cabinet ministers on Sunday.
"The agenda of the meeting was to discuss two things mainly. First, the message of the historic win in the Delhi elections purely on the basis of unprecedented development works in Delhi should be disseminated across the country loud and clear. With this election, Arvind Kejriwal and Aam Aadmi Party changed the entire nature of political discourse in the country. This is the right time to channelize the energy and enthusiasm of the volunteers to expand the party across the nation," said Rai.
Adding, AAP leader said, "This victory is emphatic and decisive as the BJP put all their efforts to win the elections deploying the Prime Minister, Union Home Minister and other ministers and the Chief Ministers from other states, using their politics of hatred. People of Delhi taught BJP a lesson and therefore AAP's spectacular win with 62 out of 70 seats has important national significance. Secondly, how this victory can be used as a springboard for expanding the party nationally."
The party has launched an extensive campaign to invite people to take part in the Nation Building by joining AAP by using a missed call number - 9871010101. According to the AAP leaders, till February 11, nearly 15 lakh people have already joined the Party through its missed call campaign. "We want to take this campaign to the next stage", Rai.
The three point action plans contains a state-level meeting of all active volunteers and office bearers shall be conducted immediately. Posters inviting the people to join the 'Nation Building' campaign using the missed call number - 9871010101, shall be published in all legislative assembly constituencies in India. It will also take part in municipal elections in other states.
"Since elections to the local bodies in many states are to be scheduled in the coming months we want to take this campaign aggressively to the grass roots, so that we can contest local body elections and get good results. The state leadership will conduct a press conference in the state capitals and later in other major cities to disseminate the message of nation-building by joining Aam Aadmi Party effectively", Rai.