AAP in Gujarat

The Aam Aadmi Party's Instagram account for Gujarat has been suspended. Party leaders claim this action reflects the Bharatiya Janata Party's fear of the AAP's growing voter support during local body elections. This development follows the departure of seven AAP Rajya Sabha MPs who joined the BJP. The AAP vows to continue its campaign in Gujarat despite the suspension.

Former BJP MLA Dr Kanu Kalsaria joined Aam Adami Party (AAP) in Gujarat on Wednesday.

The AAP on Sunday announced that it has reorganized its state unit and that a chief ministerial candidate will be named “at an opportune time.”

Former Karnataka chief minister Siddaramaiah on Thursday alleged the BJP funded the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) in Gujarat to divide the Congress votes. As the saffron party is set to return to power for the seventh time in a row, the Congress stalwart in Karnataka said the fledgling party splurged huge money in the Gujarat elections.

Aam Aadmi Party leader Saurabh Bharadwaj on Tuesday welcomed an Ahmedabad court’s decision to dismiss a plea for immunity from trial filed by Delhi LG VK Saxena.

Ahead of his visit to Gujarat on Monday in the middle of the ongoing political slugfest over the CBI probe into Delhi's liquor policy, Delhi chief minister and Aam Aadmi Party national convener Arvind Kejriwal on Sunday said that there is a lot of anger among people over the raids on deputy CM Manish Sisodia and claimed that this has resulted in many more people coming forward to join AAP in Gujarat.

BJP general secretary Tarun Chugh on Sunday ridiculed Punjab chief minister Bhagwant Mann for campaigning for AAP in Gujarat, saying that the latter failed to deliver in Punjab. The AAP government in Punjab is yet to complete a month in power.

A day after elections concluded in Punjab and Goa, AAP on Sunday launched its ‘Mission Gujarat’. The state goes to polls in the year-end.

Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) chief Arvind Kejriwal tweeted on Monday evening that the BJP is terrified of AAP’s growing popularity in Gujarat, which is why it accepted state chief minister Anandiben Patel’s offer to resign.

The Gujarat election will be held in two phases on December 1 and 5. The votes will be counted on December 8 along with Himachal Pradesh that votes on November 12. Of the total 182 assembly seats in Gujarat, 89 constituencies will vote in the first phase, and the rest 93 in the second phase.

SAD president Sukhbir Singh Badal on Tuesday said Punjab chief minister Bhagwant Mann should own responsibility for failing to maintain law and order and ensuring no one was allowed to disturb communal harmony in the state.

Women and child development minister Rakhi Birla in the Arvind Kejriwal ministry, will be visiting Gujarat for the rallies which the party's state unit will take out from January 26 to reach out to voters.

Senior Congress leader Paresh Dhanani on Sunday said the entry of the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) into Gujarat's Assembly election arena will dent the urban and semi-urban vote-bank of the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), which will ultimately benefit the grand old party.

Sources said AAP national convenor and Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal had almost made up his mind that AAP won’t contest Gujarat elections and party leader Kanu Kalasaria had announced it a few days ago. AAP’s Gujarat in-charge and minister in Delhi govt, Gopal Rai, said that the party will soon organise meetings of workers and observers to identify candidates.

AAP will hold a 'jhadu yatra' across Gujarat to highlight what they call the Modi government's corrupt practices ahead of the 2014 elections.

The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) on Friday said that Gujarat Police and the state Intelligence Bureau officials were harassing its members and gathering intelligence on them.

The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) on Sunday announced the list of its new office-bearers Gujarat, and said it was ready for a direct fight with the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in the assembly elections due in December this year.

The Gujarat unit of the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) today launched a "broom march" as part of its campaign for the Lok Sabha elections and to expose corruption of the state government.

Ahead of the assembly elections in Gujarat where AAP is trying to woo voters, Punjab cabinet on Friday approved issuance of notification for implementing the Old Pension Scheme (OPS) in the state, claiming it will directly benefit more than 1.75 lakh state government employees.

Aam Aadmi Party’s national convener Arvind Kejriwal and Punjab chief minister-elect Bhagwant Mann will visit Gujarat in the first week of April.

After getting very good initial response, Aam Admi Party (AAP), South Gujarat Unit has launched a big drive for membership enrollment and voter awareness in number of towns of the region.

In a setback to the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) in Gujarat, its MLA Bhupendra Bhayani tendered his resignation to assembly speaker Shankar Chaudhary on Wednesday and said that he will be joining BJP soon. With this, the number of AAP MLAs in the Gujarat assembly has reduced from five to four. Bhayani was elected MLA from Visavadar constituency in Junagadh. In his one-line resignation letter, Bhayani did not mention the reason behind his decision. Gujarat assembly secretary DM Patel said, “The speaker has accepted Bhayani’s resignation.”

Late on Thursday night Navrangpura police arrested Pruthvi Bhatt and three others for vandalizing Aam Aadmi Party's head office in Navrangpura on Wednesday.

Having got accustomed to a bipolar contest among themselves in Gujarat, both the ruling BJP and the opposition Congress have ruled out a triangular fight despite the high voltage campaign by Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal-led AAP in the forthcoming election in the state.

AAP convener and Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal promised that people of Gujarat will get free electricity if his party is voted to power in the forthcoming assembly election. He was speaking at an interactive session, ‘Bijli Jansamvaad’, organized by the AAP in Ahmedabad on Monday.

The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) will launch its campaign for the forthcoming assembly election in Gujarat on April 2 with a roadshow led by party national convener Arvind Kejriwal and Punjab chief minister Bhagwant Mann. It will culminate in a public meeting.

Punjab Congress president Amrinder Singh Raja Warring took a jibe at Aam Aadmi Party supremo Arvind Kejriwal for promising to give Rs 1,000 each to all women above 18 years of age in Gujarat.

After the astounding victory of its 27 candidates in Surat, the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) has set its eyes on a bigger electoral challenge in Gujarat - the 2022 assembly elections.