After sweeping 28 seats in Delhi assembly elections, nearly three lakh people have got registered with the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) in the state. Even though the graph of online registration from the Urban districts have crossed the mark of 10,000 but in rural districts registration rate was not much high.
As per data released by AAP state unit, till January 18, the AAP the online registration figures was 2, 95, 649. "The online registration by the people of state was increasing day by day. Till January 19 the figure must have crossed the mark of three lakh," said Aniket Saxena, member of AAP’s IT team. Just like people of Urban districts including Allahabad, Kanpur, lucknow, Agra and Varanasi came out in support of India Against Corruption (IAC) movement in 2012-13. The AAP has also got same kind of response in their membership too.
According to figures in the state capital as many as 30836 people have registered with the party online, in Allahabad (13667), Agra (11865), Meerut (13133) and Varanasi (9969). Ghaziabad and Gautam Buddhnagar are said to be the strong hold of AAP has evoked good response in terms of online registration with party. From Ghaziabad as many as 34391 registrations were done while 18071 from Ghaziabad and Gautam Buddhnagar.
Although, AAP Convener Arvind Kejriwal had meeting with Barelivi Cleric, Maulana Tauqeer Raza Khan asking to extend his support but still AAP didn’t emerged too popularly in Bareilly as only 6347 online registrations had been done so far. The data also shows that AAP is yet to create their impact in the rural districts. The figures of online registration from those districts was not much high. In Chitrakoot a total of 917 registrations were done, similarly in Panchsheel Nagar (60), Shravasti (189), Mahoba (921), Prabudh Nagar (584), Kaushambi (857) and Kanshiram Nagar (953).
"The offline data of membership was yet to be counted. The data entry of memberships done offline would commence from January 24. Only after that we would be able to reveal final data," said Aniket.