AAP To Contest 60 Wards In Guwahati Municipal Corporation Election

Guwahati: After a massive win in Punjab, the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) is eyeing to repeat its victory in the state too as the party has announced to contest Guwahati Municipal Corporation (GMC).

According to a TOI report, AAP will contest in all the 60 wards with 99 per cent candidates to be picked from among the residents of respective wards.

''Kejriwal model will work in the Assam capital like the way it did in Punjab,'' the report quoted AAP National Council member and Assam in-charge Rajesh Sharma as saying.

Expressing his confidence over Kejriwal model of governance, Sharma said that when voters in Lakhimpur and Tinsukia could prefer APP over a force like BJP, then in that case, the Guwahati results will fall in AAP's favour.

''The success that we are going to taste in the GMC election many not necessarily be impacted by the Punjab success, but by Kejriwal's Delhi model definitely,'' the report quoted him as saying further.

In a bid to reach masses of Guwahati, AAP has already started their digital campaign such as sending messages via digital platform.

In the recently held Assam civil polls, the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) too entered the northeast as its made debut with two seats after Delhi, Punjab and Gujarat.

The AAP candidate Dhiraj Kumar Singh won from ward no 11 in Tinsukia while Udita Das won from Ward no 14 in Lakhimpur.

Singh, who won by 183 votes defeated Hemant Sharma who is a Former Vice Chairman of Tinsukia Municipal Board and four-time ward commissioner.

On the other hand, Udita Das also won with a huge margin of votes.

The AAP had fielded 39 candidates in 80 municipalities of which three nominations were rejected and one candidate withdrew his papers and eventually the numbers came to 35.

Apart from these two candidates, two other AAP candidates named Prerna Karnani and Priya Malakar, stood second from ward number 6 and 7.

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