The Aam
Aadmi Party said Saturday it would
contest the upcomming Lok Sabha elections under the leadership of Arvind
Kejriwal, a day after he quit as Delhi chief minister.
AAP leader
Yogendra Yadav said at a press conference here after a party meeting that its
first anti-corruption rally will be held Feb 23 in Haryana's Rohtak district.
The second
rally will be held March 2 in Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh. The rally will be led by
Kejriwal.
Yadav
justified Kejriwal's resignation Friday, saying the AAP has set a precedent as
a government that is willing to quit.
"AAP
was formed to contest election on several principles, one of the foremost being
the Jan Lokpal bill," he said.
"As we
were not allowed (to introduce the bill) and it became clear that in this
assembly, it was impossible for AAP to even introduce the bill on Jan Lokpal,
the party complimented Arvind Kejriwal for taking a clear decision of
resigning," he added.
