Party to contest all seven seats in Delhi

The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) has started preparing for the 2019 Lok Sabha elections. Party sources confirmed on Sunday that the AAP will contest on selected seats across the country. In Delhi, it will fight in all seven Parliamentary constituencies.

Senior party sources said that local leaders and volunteers had been assessing the mood of the voters throughout last year to decide which constituencies will be viable.

“Every party fights to win elections. We did not want to go unprepared for the contest, and thus we have gone for proper research and decision this time,” a senior party leader said.

He added that despite being the ruling party in the national capital, the AAP was struggling for resources in several smaller centres where the party is still establishing its base.

“We are still a new party compared to our contemporaries and since we still rely on donations from supporters for funding our operations we have to be very careful where money is spent,” the leader said.

Fight for Punjab

Other sources in the party, however, said that that AAP would contest all seats in Delhi and Punjab.

“We have a strong base in Delhi. We are the ruling party here. In Punjab too, we made a few mistakes but ended up as a strong opposition. We have learnt from our mistakes and are ready to face elections,” said another AAP member.

Senior AAP functionaries will spend the rest of this year taking stock of organisational structures in each State and accordingly decide the allocation of seats.

“In Delhi, the preparations for the Lok Sabha elections have already started. Our Delhi convener Gopal Rai is meeting local leaders,” the member added.

The country is due for the next Lok Sabha elections in 2019. In Delhi, parties will be fighting for seven seats and in Punjab 13 seats will be going to polls.