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CHANDIGARH: Aam Adami Party (AAP), which is going to hold a rally on Sunday at Gohana to sound the poll bugle in Haryana for upcoming elections, would also use the even to shortlist prospective candidates. The party is going to ask the ticket seekers to prove their strength by gathering crowd for the event, which will be addressed by AAP supremo and Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal .

Party sources claimed that a large number of people had expressed their willingness to contest the upcoming parliamentary election, as well as, the state assembly elections on AAP ticket. A monitoring cell has been constituted by the party, which would shortlist the candidates.

“We have asked all those interested in contesting on AAP ticket to come with maximum number of people, issues/problems related to their areas and their contribution in raising such issues at the local level. We have no money like other political parties who gathers crowd on payment. We have asked the prospective candidates that the Gohana rally would be a kind of screening test for them for their candidature for the party ticket,” Naveen Jaihind, state president AAP told TOI.

He added that by this way, the party would also judge the candidates’ popularity, his knowledge about the problems of his area and mass connectivity. “The idea is to find candidates well aware about the problems of ‘aam adami’ at ground level. After screening such candidates, the final decision would be taken after getting feedback from the public and workers,” Jaihind added.

The AAP state president, however, made it clear that in Gohana rally, only APP leaders would address the rally. Talks are going on regarding alliance with Dushyant Chautala ’s Jannayak Janata party (JJP) but any decision would be taken after the rally, he said, adding that party leader Sushil Gupta had initiated talks regarding the tie up. He, however, made it clear that party would not enter into alliance with INLD.

Jaihind also said that they had launched a massive campaign to install billboards, posters, and stickers of party to reach each and every household of all the villages and towns of Haryana.

