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Arvind Kejriwal to challenge Narendra Modi on his home turf in 2014 Lok Sabha polls
New Delhi: Encouraged with its spectacular performance in Delhi elections, Arvind Kejriwal-led Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) wants to contest all the Lok Sabha seats from Gujarat to forge a challenge to BJP prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi in his home state.
According to sources, the strategy is to confine Modi to Gujarat so that his visits to other states are severely curtailed.
AAP has already set up committees in 309 districts of the country with an aim to contest 2014 Lok Sabha elections. AAP leaders are going to meet soon to chalk out a strategy for upcoming general elections, said the sources.
Although it is still not clear how many seats AAP will its candidates in upcoming parliamentary elections, but the party's Karnataka unit has already announced that it will field candidates for all 28 Lok Sabha seats in the state.
The main challenge before Kejriwal is that he does not have a nationwide network. While AAP reaped the harvest of people's anger against Congress in Delhi, it will have to face a tried and tested leader like Narendra Modi in the Lok Sabha polls.
Modi's popularity ratings are no doubt on the upswing and Kejriwal is yet to find his bearings in the national popularity ratings.
AAP may impress people in Haryana, western Uttar Pradesh and Delhi, but to meet the phalanx of BJP supporters in Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan and Gujarat seems to be a tough challenge for the one-year-old party.
By defeating three-time Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit by a huge margin of 22,000 votes, Kejriwal has now realised the strength of "people's power".
The activist-turned politician has got indirect support from Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah, who had tweeted on Sunday that "newcomers" in politics "should not be taken lightly".
Kejriwal feels that the common man does not have a clear acceptable alternative at present and therefore, voters are caught between the Congress and the BJP. People are frustrated after several leaders from both these national parties were found involved in wrongdoings, he says.
REVEALED: Arvind Kejriwal to challenge Narendra Modi on his home turf in 2014 Lok Sabha polls - daily.bhaskar.com
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