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The Aam Aadmi party will participate in the Uttar Pradesh elections in 2022, party chief Arvind Kejriwal said on Tuesday.
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The Aam Aadmi party will participate in the Uttar Pradesh elections in 2022, party chief Arvind Kejriwal said on Tuesday.
In eight years, the AAP formed a government three times in Delhi and has become the main opposition in Punjab. We will fight the Uttar Pradesh Assembly elections in 2022, “Kejriwal said.” Many brothers and sisters from Uttar Pradesh live in Delhi. When AAP formed a government for the third time in Delhi, many UP people gave us suggestions that we should contest the polls in the state. They said they were unhappy with the parties present in the state, “he added.
“Why do people from the Uttar Pradesh districts have to come to Delhi for health care, education and basic services? Why can’t they take advantage of that in their own state? “Kejriwal said while making the announcement.
On Monday, the head of the Samajwadi Party, Akhilesh Yadav, said that his party will form an alliance with smaller parties in the next Assembly elections. Speaking to the media when asked about the party’s alliance in the upcoming Assembly elections in the state to stop the BJP, Yadav said: “The Samajwadi Party will forge an alliance with smaller parties. Our experience has not been good with the big ones
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The former Uttar Pradesh chief minister said: “We are hopeful that in 2022 the Samajwadi party will form the government in the state with the majority.”
BJP had returned to power in the state in the 2017 Assembly polls. In the UP Assembly of 403 members, among the main parties, the BJP has 309 legislators, SP 49, BSP 18 and Congress 7.
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