The national council of the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) that met on Saturday unanimously decided to extend the terms of all of its office-bearers, including party convener Arvind Kejriwal, by a year.
Addressing a Presser after the meeting of the AAP national council, party leader Pankaj Gupta said a proposal to extend the term of the current council by a year in view of the upcoming Lok Sabha election and the Delhi Assembly polls was passed unanimously.
“The extension of the national council’s term means that the terms of the national executive and convener Arvind Kejriwal are also extended by a year,” he told PTI.
The proposal to extended terms for Office bearers was passed unanimously keeping in mind the upcoming Lok Sabha 2019 Polls and State Polls in Delhi, Gupta Party’s General Secretary told Reporters.
The term of the national council was to end on April 23, 2019 now.
The National Council of the party has also decided to contest Lok Sabha in Goa, Chandigarh, Punjab, Haryana apart from Delhi. “Candidates from AAP will contest in the upcoming Lok Sabha Elections in 2019 from Delhi, Punjab, Goa, Chandigarh & Haryana to end the autocratic rule of Modi government”, Gopal Rai, Party’s Delhi Convenor Gopal Rai told ANI.
Delhi Minister Gopal Rai: Candidates from AAP will contest in the upcoming Lok Sabha Elections in 2019 from Delhi, Punjab, Goa, Chandigarh & Haryana to end the autocratic rule of Modi government. pic.twitter.com/gR7jp3wnOd
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On asking about the extension of term for Arvind Kejriwal, AAP leader Gopal Rai said the terms of all the national council members were extended including Arvind Kejriwal.
According to the party constitution, “No member will hold the same post as an office bearer for more than two consecutive terms of three years each.”. AAP Founder and National Chief Arvind Kejriwal was elected as the national convenor of the party for the second term in April 2016 for a period of three years.
Aam Aadmi Party and Indian National Congress reportedly were in Backroom talks to join hands in Delhi, Punjab, and Haryana but recently Rajiv Gandhi Resolution Row in Delhi Assembly has changed the dynamics altogether and leaders of both parties are now in a war of words.