New Delhi: The Aam Aadmi Party is ready to set out for its national ambitions as it gears up to kickstart its Lok Sabha election campaign from Haryana on Sunday.
AAP convenor and former Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal will launch the party's campaign with a rally in Rohtak, which is being represented by Deepender Singh Hooda, son of Haryana Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda and hopes to rout the Congress just like Delhi elections.
AAP will start holding its election meetings across the country starting Sunday.
As the party gears up to hold the mega rally, it has accused the Congress government in the state of not co-operating with it. The AAP has alleged that the Congress-led government in the state was creating hurdles before the event.
"The Congress government is using tactics before the rally. Hooda is giving orders to remove the posters put up by us and auto drivers who are campaigning for us are being fined. Haryana Urban Development Authority, on whose ground we are holding the rally, is also troubling us," charged Naveen Jaihind, party leader from Haryana.
The AAP leadership has carefully chosen Haryana to be its next political battleground after its near stunning show in the Delhi elections in December 2013.
In the run up to the Delhi polls, the majority of the AAP volunteers came from Haryana. Its party convenor, Arvind Kejriwal too hails from Haryana.
AAP claims that winds of change that blew through Delhi are now sweeping the entire country and traditional political parties have been brought to their knees.
"The ordinary people of Haryana, who were aggrieved by dynastic politics, nepotism, corruption and criminal antecedents of their political leaders, now see a ray of hope," AAP leader Rajiv Godara added.
The AAP has announced that its strategist Yogendra Yadav will contest the Lok Sabha election from Gurgaon in Haryana adjoining Delhi.
Yadav, who has been actively touring Haryana for over two months, is determined to expand the AAP base in the state.
The AAP leaders have attacked the Bhupinder Singh Hooda government for corruption and land scams. Hooda, who has been chief minister since March 2005, will also face the assembly polls in October.
AAP, which had announced that Haryana would be its next stop after it conquered Delhi, will most likely take up issues of land acquisition and Congress President Sonia Gandhi's son-in-law Robert Vadra's dealings in the state.
(With inputs from PTI, IANS)
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