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‘UP deserves benefits like Delhi’: Kejriwal announces AAP to fight 2022 polls
“Why do people from districts across Uttar Pradesh have to come to Delhi for healthcare, education and basis amenities? Why can’t they avail that in their own state?” said Kejriwal as he made the announcement.
The Aam Aadmi Party will contest in the Uttar Pradesh Assembly elections in 2022, party chief Arvind Kejriwal announced on Tuesday.
“Why do people from districts across Uttar Pradesh have to come to Delhi for healthcare, education and basis amenities? Why can’t they avail that in their own state?” said Kejriwal as he made the announcement.
“In 2022 polls, AAP will contest Uttar Pradesh elections... a lot of people from Uttar Pradesh who live in Delhi have told us over the last few years that UP too deserves the welfare and benefits like Delhi,” he also said. “If Sangam Vihar can have Mohalla Clinics, so can Gomti Nagar,” Kejriwal added.
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Kejriwal also said that all parties in Uttar Pradesh have betrayed the people as “each governent crossed the other one in terms of corruption”. “UP politics lacks good intent, which the AAP can bring in,” the Delhi chief minister said as he asked voters to give one chance to his party. “I assure you that Uttar Pradesh people will forget all other parties,” Kejriwal said.
“People have Delhi have voted the AAP to power because they were waiting for an honest government... today, all residents of UP need an honest political party with good intent,” he also said.
The announcement comes as the AAP registered its maiden win in the Goa Zilla Panchayat elections. The party opened its account with Hanzel Fernandes who won Benaulim seat in South Goa. The ruling Bharatiya Janata Party made big gains as it won 32 out of 49 seat in a clean sweep.
Before this, the AAP has contested in the Punjab, Goa, and Gujarat Assembly elections in 2017. With an ambition to go national, it has also contested in Meghalaya, Nagaland, Karnataka, Chhatisgarh, Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan, Odisha and Telangana Assembly elections. The party has also debuted in Haryana, Maharashtra and Jharkhand Assembly elections.
Uttar Pradesh is currently ruled by the Yogi Adityanath led government after BJP stormed to power in the 2017 legislative assembly elections. In the 403-member UP Assembly, among the major parties, BJP has 309 legislators, Samajwaadi Party has 49, Bahujan Samaj Party 18, and Congress 7.
