Arvind Kejriwal: Gujarat Assembly Polls, Aam Aadmi Party to contest in 2022

Arvind Kejriwal, Chief Minister of Delhi and leader of Aam Aadmi party has announced on Monday that the AAP will be contesting in Gujarat Assembly Polls for all seats in 2022.

"Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) to contest on all seats in the 2022 Gujarat Legislative Assembly Polls," said Kejriwal. “Now Gujarat will change. Tomorrow I am coming to Gujarat, and will meet all the brothers and sisters of Gujarat," Kejriwal said in a tweet posted in Gujarati on Sunday.

This is Kejriwal's second visit to Gujarat. He had last visited Surat in February after the party emerged as the main opposition after the civic body elections. AAP has won 27 seats out of 120 seats in Surat Municipal Corporation (SMC) in 2021.

The AAP will be presenting itself as a formidable alternative to the Congress in Gujarat and challenge the BJP in Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s home turf. The party will be trying to fill in the gap left by the Congress, which has seen setbacks in the recent past due to several resignations of its MLAs, and its poor performance in the local body polls held in February this year.