A file photo of AAP convener Arvind Kejriwal.

BHOPAL: Ahead of Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) national convener Arvind Kejriwal 's rally in the state capital on November 5, several Congress , BJP and other party leaders joined AAP .

Among those who have joined AAP are eight Congress leaders, six BJP leaders, three BSP leaders, three Samajwadi Party leaders, two Gondvana Gantantra Party leaders, four leaders of the Bharatiya Kisan Union and others.

Those who joined AAP include Congress leader Lakhan Agarwal, BSP leader Gulab Singh from Rewa, Shyam Singh Gaur of Samajwadi Party in Bhind, former mandal BJP president Brahm Kishore Dubey, former district president youth congress of Gwalior Rajesh Singh, former BJP janpad panchayat member in Balaghat district Bhagat Ram Hatimare, district convener of Gondvana Gantantra Party in Balaghat, block president of BJP's Chaurai block in Chhindwara district Yogendra Maneshwar, former candidate of BSP from Khargone Kailash Rokade, former secretary of the Barwani district Congress Shailesh Chaubey, former BSP candidate from Alirajpur Antar Singh Patel and others.

"These people have joined the party in the last one month. We had conducted zone-wise volunteer training camps in each zone and these people have joined in different groups at the zone-level programmes. The latest group had joined five days ago on October 30," spokesperson for the party Dushyant Dangi told TOI.

He said, "All these people have joined after getting inspired by the policies of the party. We had also done background check of these people before they were embraced into the party".

Sources from the party said that it is likely that a state Congress committee leader will also join AAP in the coming days. AAP has said that it will contest 230 seats in 2018 assembly elections and national leader Arvind Kejriwal will be in the state on November 20 to kickstart AAP's 2018 election campaign.

