NAGPUR:
Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) Maharashtra convener Anjali Damania on Saturday said the BJP will be the party's main rival in the Lok Sabha polls and not the Congresswhich had lost its 'relevance'.
"The 128-year-old Congress has already lost relevance the way it is sliding. We will target the BJP. Narendra Modi cannot become prime minister of this country as the BJP will not get allies to support Modi," said Damania.
She said AAP would come up with one expose every week against former BJP president Nitin Gadkari who is to contest the Lok Sabha elections from the city.
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AAP would come up with one expose every week against former BJP president Nitin Gadkari who is to contest the Lok Sabha elections from the city.
Asked if AAP was soft on Congress and only targeting Gadkari, Damania said they were hoping that anti-incumbency factor would work against the Congress which was holding the Nagpur Lok Sabha seat for last 15 years. "The BJP will be our rival in the coming polls," said Damania who is part of the national council of AAP.
"During the election campaign we plan to make one expose every week against Gadkari's business dealings and his nexus with rival political leaders for mutual gains. We will also expose how Gadkari and local Congress MP Vilas Muttemwar are hand-in-glove," said Damania.
"I have already exposed how Gadkari and NCP leader Ajit Pawar work together though they are supposed to be political rivals. Pawar sanctioned land in four days for sugarcane cultivation of Gadkari's Purti sugar factory, at Khursapar near Bela from irrigation surplus land. I was appalled when Gadkari told me we helped them in four deals and they reciprocated," she said.
Following this expose, the TOI had also extensively covered a slew of suspect transactions that Purti Group was allegedly involved in.
She dismissed any negative impact from the recent street protest by Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal and his ministerial colleagues demanding suspension of some policemen for alleged inaction against African nationals accused of involved in sex and drug racket. "Sensing threat to their very existence from the emergence of AAP, established political parties are bent upon attacking us. But we will continue our fight to cleanse the country's politics and root out corruption," said Damania.
Damania said AAP would contest most of the 48 seats in Maharashtra. "We will start scrutiny of candidates for the state from next week."