Assembly election in UP 2022 : AAP to contest all 403 seats, alleges corruption everywhere in state

NEW DELHI: Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal-led Aam Aadmi Party (AAP), which announced that it would contest all 403 seats in the 2022 Uttar Pradesh assembly election, has lashed out at the ruling BJP and alleged that corruption was taking place everywhere in the state.

Delhi deputy chief minister Manish Sisodia, who has embarked on ‘Tiranga Yatra’ in poll-bound UP, alleged on Wednesday that there was corruption all around in the state.

Addressing a press conference in Noida, he said, “There is corruption everywhere in Uttar Pradesh, from providing jobs to the people to giving the right price to the farmers for their crops… The Uttar Pradesh government is working against the glory of the tricolour and the people who fought for our freedom."

Sisodia alleged that the UP government was involved in various corruptions, he said, "The people of the Bharatiya Janata Party talk about nationalism, but when it comes to providing good education to the people in the state, they are seen misusing the mid-day meal funds."

He alleged that when a journalist raised the questions regarding the mid-day meal funds, he was sent to jail for six months. "Under the Tiranga Yatra, AAP will be interacting with the people in Uttar Pradesh with the pledge of development and revolution in education," he said.

Sisodia took part in the 'Tiranga Yatra' which was launched from Lucknow on August 14. He took part in another yatra that was flagged off from Agra on August 29.

The third Tiranga Yatra is likely to be launched in Ayodhya on September 14.

Earlier on Tuesday, AAP Rajya Sabha MP Sanjay Singh claimed that the party would contest all the 403 seats in the UP assembly election next year on its own strength.

Sanjay Singh, who hails from UP and is also the AAP's state in-charge, said the names of the candidates would be declared in the next 15 days. As of now, a list of 120 candidates was ready, he said.

AAP would expose the "fake nationalism" of the BJP, and showcase "real nationalism" of the AAP, he said.

He said the party’s Tiranga Yatra would cover all the 403 assembly constituencies of the state

Kejriwal had announced in December last year that AAP would fight the 2022 assembly election in UP which, he said, should become a developed state. He alleged that UP did not have good schools and hospitals and people were facing irregular power supply.

Source: Times of India