Choose between AAP’s governance and discredited Gujarat model: Kejriwal

Indicating his willingness to expand the party’s base, Kejriwal said AAP will have to fight elections with a target of winning at least 90 per cent seats and make governments to change the system. 

“We will fight elections but before that we have to work hard. We have to fight elections to win 90 seats out of 100. We will fight elections to make governments and change the system,” the AAP’s national convenor said at the party’s National Council meeting. 

Kejriwal hit out at the BJP alleging the saffron party canvassed for votes in the name of development and later diverted the focus to other issues like the row over raising ‘Bharat mata ki jai’ slogan.

“Now they say raise ‘Bharat mata ki jai’ slogans otherwise you will be beaten up. During the Anna movement, people chanted ‘Bharat mata ki jai’ from their hearts,” he said.

He said, “People are so satisfied with AAP’s model of governance in the national capital that if elections are held today BJP won’t win even a single seat.” 

“There is a Delhi model of governance and then the Gujarat model. We invite everyone to compare the two models,” he said. 

AAP announces new NE, includes seven women 

The Aam Aadmi Party on Wednesday announced its new National Executive (NE), the party’s second-highest decision making body, with 17 new names which include seven women, a departure from the past when it had no female representation. 

The 25-member restructured body also has several names from Punjab, which is going to polls in 2017, the party’s next big focus in the electoral arena. The new entrants are Yamini Gomar, Rajendra Pal Gautam, Preeti Sharma Menon, Durgesh Pathak, Bhagwant Mann, Kanu Bhai Kalsaria, Harjot Bains, Baljinder Kaur, Raghav Chadha, Ashish Talwar, Atishi Marlena, Sadhu Singh, Dinesh Vaghela, Meera Sanyal, Bhawna Gaur, Rakhi Birla, Imran Hussain and Amanatullah Khan.