New Delhi, March 3- Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Tuesday said he was “deeply hurt and pained” by the ongoing tussle in the party. “I am deeply hurt and pained by what is going on in the party. This is betrayal of trust that Delhi posed in us,” Kejriwal tweeted. “I refuse to be drawn […]
More than 900 candidates who applied for contesting the 80 Lok Sabha seats from Uttar Pradesh on Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) tickets would be selected through interviews that begin Friday. While most seats in the state have multiple candidates, the race for the Lucknow constituency is one of the most keen, with as many as […]
Around 500 members of AAP protested here Wednesday demanding action against those who are allegedly bringing Ugandan women on the pretext of providing them jobs but forcing them into sex and drugs rackets. Three Ugandan women Tuesday registered a complaint with the police that several placement agencies were operating sex and drug rackets in and […]
The centre informed the Delhi High Court Wednesday that the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) has not responded to a notice on its source of its funds. A division bench of Justice Pradeep Nandrajog and Justice Jayant Nath asked the petitioner, advocate M.L. Sharma, to include AAP as a respondent in the case and posted the […]
The AAP, BJP and the Akali Dal Wednesday demanded an SIT probe into the 1984 anti-Sikh riots in Delhi after Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi admitted some party members’ involvement in the violence. Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal met Lt. Governor Najeeb Jung Wednesday morning to submit his request for a Special Investigation Team (SIT) […]
The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP), which intends to contest all the 80 seats from Uttar Pradesh – and 350 overall – in the upcoming Lok Sabha polls, has set up an election war room here, a party official said. The state secretariat, as it is called, will double up as AAP’s office and the strategy […]
The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) Thursday stood by Delhi Law Minister Somnath Bharti over his vigilante-style midnight raid on African nationals in the capital, saying the minister had no personal agenda against anyone and did not misuse his power. “Somnath Bharti didn’t intervene in the Khirki Extension matter due to any personal agenda but due […]
A controversy erupted Monday over a purported letter handed over by a Ugandan High Commission “official” to Delhi Law Minister Somnath Bharti, with the external affairs ministry revealing that the Ugandan mission staff are not in town and “not to give credence to rumours”. External Affairs Minister Salman Khurshid told reporters that he felt “sad […]
Taking a dig at the AAP for deciding to launch an agitation outside the home ministry from Monday, senior BJP leader Arun Jaitley said the party was more comfortable on the streets than inside the secretariat. The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) has demanded action against some police personnel who had a tiff with two of […]
The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) will field a cobbler or rickshaw puller against Lok Janshakti Party (LJP) leader Ram Vilas Paswan in the Lok Sabha election, a party leader said Sunday. “The AAP has decided to field a ‘common man’ against Paswan. The candidate may be a hard-working cobbler or rickshaw puller,” AAP convenor Somnath […]