Patna: Aam Aadmi Party leader Sanjay Singh on Tuesday announced that his party will be throwing its hat in the ring for the Bihar
Assembly polls, which are due later this year.
The Rajya Sabha MP, who is the party’s in-charge for Bihar, spoke to reporters in the state capital where he took part in an AAP dharna against the NDA government.
Singh was asked about speculations that AAP, which is a force to reckon with in Delhi and Punjab, besides having made its presence felt in Gujarat, was planning to contest the Bihar Assembly elections.
Replying in the affirmative, he said, “We will be contesting the polls in Bihar. Details like which seats to fight will be decided by the central leadership in due course.”
“In Delhi, the BJP government is treating migrants from Bihar and
Purvanchal like citizens of an enemy country. They are being rendered homeless as slums are being demolished with a vengeance. We call upon the people of Bihar to vote the BJP out of power in the state,” Singh said.
Incidentally, the AAP, headed by Arvind Kejriwal, after enjoying two consecutive terms in power in the government in the national capital, suffered a humiliating defeat at the hands of the BJP in the Delhi Assembly polls held earlier this year.
The Rajya Sabha MP alleged, “The BJP used to entice Biharis and Purvanchalis living in Delhi, while we were in power, with promises of pucca houses in place of jhuggis (slums). They bared their fangs in the thick of polls when migrant brethren were labelled as Bangladeshis.”