New Delhi: Arvind Kejriwal's Aam Aadmi Party that stormed to power in Delhi last month plans to field 350 candidates in Lok Sabha ele...
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New Delhi: Arvind Kejriwal's Aam Aadmi Party that stormed to power in Delhi last month plans to field 350 candidates in Lok Sabha elections due by May.
Following its strong performance in Delhi, interest in the year-old Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) has surged. Since an announcement earlier this month that it would contest the general election, its membership has passed 10 million.
While polls suggest the debutant party is unlikely to win more than a dozen or so seats, its success in Delhi has shaken up the national race, with Modi's Bharatiya Janata Party and the Congress party both aping Aam Aadmi's anti-elite, anti-corruption language. Even a small clutch of seats for the AAP could be enough to deny BJP's Narendra Modi a chance at forming a government, and give AAP chief Arvind Kejriwal a say in national policy.
The AAP will put up candidates in constituencies of 73 members of parliament who face serious criminal charges. Candidates will also stand for the seats of central government ministers which the party believes are corrupt, Mr Kejriwal said in an interview with Reuters.
"The most important thing is there are a large number of cabinet ministers who have indulged in corruption, they need to be defeated," Mr Kejriwal said. He did not say how many, or which, government ministers would be a target.
Voters are notorious for rewarding candidates with criminal accusations against them. Politicians accused of crimes had a higher success rate than others in the last parliamentary election in 2009.
"It is for the people to decide if they want to support clean politics or not. Earlier the people used to say they didn't have an option, now we will provide them with a clean option," Mr Kejriwal said.
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